sweet nothings

But she pays little attention as she fusses around the grave and whispers sweet nothings to her dead son.

"It's emotionally aggravating to pursue the police. If I don't call them I don't hear anything; if I do, I get sweet nothings," he adds.

The occupants of a table for two in the middle of the patio whisper sweet nothings to each other and smile widely.

In the song he asks, “Do you wanna be my girlfriend?” which he says is among the sweet nothings he often whispers to Adrienne.

Though immortalized in art, literature and song, and cherished by lovers who whisper sweet nothings or tearfully part on the privacy of its banks, the river was ecologically dying.