Always be ready to talk about any neutral topic, her father had said.

She sought to find some more neutral topic.

She blinked several times and tried to come up with a neutral topic of conversation.

Glad he'd settled on a neutral topic, she swept her hand to the south.

Searching for neutral topics, I commented on the weather.

They both attempted, with limited success, to make inconsequential conversation on neutral topics.

Amaryllis made herself move on to a more neutral topic.

There was no topic neutral enough for conversation that afternoon.

A kind friend, she turned to me in an obvious effort to change the course of the conversation to a neutral topic.

She cast about desperately for some neutral topic, but before she could find one the widow spoke again.