Sentence examples for empty chatter from inspiring English sources

They kept empty chatter to a minimum and applied themselves to the matters at hand.

We loners are driven to escape the empty chatter that fills most lives.

For all the empty chatter about combining austerity with growth, policies that might deliver growth in the eurozone will continue to be the stuff of dreams.

There may be, if language develops, odd and complex language disorders — a tendency to verbosity, empty chatter, cliché-ridden and formulaic speech; the psychologist Doris Allen describes this aspect of their autism as a "semantic-pragmatic deficit".

It would be great to see more store windows that actually have a feel for the world they are trying to reach and not simply play host to its empty chatter.

The losers in this cultural blood sport are ambitious, idiosyncratic films that never get a fair chance at an audience, and filmgoers whose attention is distracted by endless, empty chatter about the state of the contest.

She's the Justin Bieber of empty media chatter... unless you consider Justin Bieber to be the Justin Bieber of empty media chatter, which I don't.

The empty-headed chattering class began another round of speculation and inane analysis this week when his approval rating dropped to 46 percent, its lowest yet.

SHEIKH ZWAYD, Egypt — Every night at dusk, the streets of this desert town near the Israeli border empty out, and the chatter and thump of gunfire and explosives begin.

They would see the empty seats, hear the chatter that rose above any chanting and wonder if their feelings for the shirt were reflected by a nation who seemingly didn't believe any more.

Rex Ryan, the Jets coach, has managed, so far, to talk up this game without making it as much an us-versus-them thing as he did when his team played the Patriots, in part because doing so, absent cause and history, would make the trash talk more like empty cable-news-talk chatter, rather than a legitimate (or at least plausible) call to arms.