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Bad taste and forced banter.
Ever since France's soporific opener his public appearances have been accompanied by a beatific smile and slightly forced banter.
In general, the talk, guided by Gotham's executive director, Gene Murrow, proved awkward, finding little middle ground between forced banter and scholarly disquisition.
He corresponded constantly with his father (whose responses glow with paternal pride at his genius and abilities) and mother, with whom he maintained a slightly forced banter about his romantic prospects.
Two: You know, talking to strangers under most circumstances is excruciating, but this forced banter was entirely worth the effort because I got to watch your dog's puffy tail-nub wag really fast for thirty seconds.
The BBC maundered on until 2013, doing less and less but doing it ever more irritatingly, investing its remaining big days with up-itself portentousness: all forced banter, moody music and silly slo-mo.
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There appeared to be nothing phony or forced about the banter between the waiters — two of them during the week, three on weekends — and the customers, many of whom seemed quite at home and well versed in the menu.
You only have to listen to the forced, rarely funny banter of the hosts on ABC's "Wipeout" for a few minutes to appreciate how pitch-perfect Mr. Kennedy and especially Ms. Cruickshank are.
You shout "oi oi" because your emotional capacity is so stunted your attempts at shouting "please love me, know me, be with me" are forced through a banter-defibrillator and garbled into nothing but a meaningless, potentially classist cliche.
Most of what passes for amusement comes from the forced, not-so-hilarious banter of two squabbling moose, Tuke Davee Thomas and Rutt Rick Moranisis).
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