1 not by a balance of political power.
2 The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the political news.
3 It did not now occur to him to think of Russia, or the war, or politics, or Napoleon.
4 He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking to him about politics.
5 But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today.
6 And such had European life, politics, Freemasonry, philosophy, and philanthropy seemed to him.
7 "We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal than with politics," said he in his quiet ironical tone.
8 And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics.
9 The conversation turned on the contemporary gossip about those in power, in which most people see the chief interest of home politics.
10 They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other intimately.
11 Prince Bolkonski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasili, pointed to it and began questioning him about political affairs and news.
12 Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed.
13 Pierre was sitting in the drawing-room where Shinshin had engaged him, as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in which several others joined but which bored Pierre.
14 He listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and political events.
15 To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs.
16 Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pavlovna's receptions were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court society so dearly and distinctly indicated.
17 Although he was in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high official appointed to the province in which the prince's estate lay considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince appeared punctually to the appointed hour.
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