talky
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It’s one of the set’s catchiest songs, marred only by a corny spoken-word bit—hopefully, she’ll leave these talky bridges behind on her next collection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Showy but intimate, talky yet supple, it’s murmuring assurances to rebut the very doubts he’s raising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
The film, which was shot over six days in one location, is talky, but it never feels artificial.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2024
But no one in the industry expected that a long, talky, R-rated drama released at the height of the summer movie season would earn over $900 million at the box office.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
“I just couldn’t get away from my last clients. That was one talky woman! I bet I can tell you about every moment of the last ten years of her life!”
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Much of the power in these scenes — and the talkier ones — arises from their riskiness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
Their musical point of view—belligerent but wounded—felt a little like outlaw country, a genre that had recently formed in opposition to the slick Nashville scene, but their songs were talkier, more cerebral.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
Long, talky stakeouts and even longer, talkier car rides ensue, during which the actors easily hold your interest, charging even the slower cadences of their stylized dialogue with rhythmic unease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2019
It’s agreeably silly, and sometimes appealingly slapsticky, compared to the talkier likes of Blockers or Game Night.
From The Verge ● Dec. 28, 2018
This book feels longer and talkier than the first two, and the plot is more convoluted, bouncing from Moscow and Washington to Greece, New York, Khartoum, Macao and Hong Kong.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2018
The opener, with Charlotte Flair winning the title NXT Championship from Rhea Ripley, was another very physical match, albeit the talkiest to that point.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020
The Stephen Sondheim number Ms. McDonald chose, the Baker’s Wife song “Moments in the Woods,” from “Into the Woods,” was one of his talkiest.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2013
Less a civil war Saving Private Ryan than a 19th-century prequel to The West Wing, Spielberg's wide-angle account of the abolition of slavery is his talkiest film, but all the better for it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
The latest installment is probably the crankiest and talkiest of the lot: a huge collection of clips, quotes, yarns, letters, anecdotes, poor jokes, explanations and refutations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among her handicaps: a somewhat watered-down characterization, and most of the movie's talkiest passages.
From Time Magazine Archive
