F.B.I. documents, made public in the 1970's, revealed that he had one-sided discussions with prosecutors about sentencing.

Several meters away, unseen and unheard by either participant in this one-sided discussion, Jean-Luc Picard groaned aloud.

I wasn't particularly interested, and a one-sided discussion always annoys me.

The player's character never speaks, and instead participates in one-sided discussions with other characters.

The dreamy (and perhaps slightly troubled) look of abstraction in Roland's eyes during these one-sided discussions would have been familiar to anyone who has ever tried to talk sense to a drug addict.

While the Telegraph was having its mostly one-sided discussion, a larger debate was being played out in Britain over the issue of homosexuality in political life.

When the ceremony was over we went back to join Kenji, who seemed to be deep in a one-sided discussion with the Tohan man about art and religion.

Such treatment included one-sided "discussions" of Ridgeway's observations.

And for all the great, evident aspirations of "All Rise" to serve as a profound testimony to human experience, cradle to grave, it was (like so many state encounters) a rather one-sided discussion.

This is a good time of year to step back from daily events and commune with big thinkers, so I've been having a rather one-sided discussion about this whole Iraq business with Michael Oakeshott.