An upended Ping-Pong table separates the two groups, so that the chatter flows freely around the brightly lighted room.
No, even the most run-of-the-mill chowing in Richard Curtis movies, or any food scene ever to feature Emma Thompson, is a thing of beauty: a fork spears a legume, a sip of liquid is imbibed and the chatter flows freely.
On a recent evening, votives and bare-bulb pendant lamps cast a warm glow over the L-shaped bar and minimalist dining room, as convivial chatter flowed across the dozen polished-wood tables.
She says the daily chatter that flows through the site — updates about bad hair days and pictures from dinner — is virtual clutter she doesn't need in her life.
But there's something seductive about it: The stream, the flow, the chatter, the sudden bursts of news, the snark, the gossip, time itself tweet-tweet-tweeting away.
"But there's something seductive about it: The stream, the flow, the chatter, the sudden bursts of news, the snark, the gossip, time itself tweet-tweet-tweeting away," he wrote for the Times.
The wine flows, the chatter crackles, opinions collide among the drunken trophy guests, and the hostess flutters like a mechanical hummingbird.
Some of them actually do begin to "hear" an inner voice--they learn to attend to words that rise up as an "answer to prayer" from the continuous chatter of thought that flows in the background of consciousness.
These include spitting, rubbing dirt in the fingers, extending the game by conferring or tying shoelaces, keeping up a steady flow of chatter.
As we turned south for Nizwa, Maureen saw a fort to the west, and, rather in the manner of a mother trying to distract a child from an approaching ice-cream truck, began a flow of chatter about the mountains to the east.
-CHINESE SAYING I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
