Those two brothers had the happiest, most good-natured talk show on the face of the Earth.
When St. Aubyn had come in — a long cashmere coat over a gray jacket, and his right hand braced and bandaged after a skiing accident — they had asked him to join them for a glass of wine, and for fifteen minutes there had been good-natured talk about the Tony prospects of the recent Broadway production of Pinter's "Betrayal," and about a sad decline in the quality of literary feuds.
In the moments before kickoff in an early-season game between the Tennessee Titans and the Baltimore Ravens, two linebackers engaged in some good-natured trash talking.
On the lighter side was the good-natured trash talk between Giants players and their former teammate Mario Manningham, a receiver who joined running back Brandon Jacobs in bolting for the 49ers over the off-season.
Five hours before the long-awaited World Cup match Saturday between the United States and England ended in a tie, a cafe across the street from Royal Bafokeng Stadium was an elbow-to-elbow crush of red, white and blue, overflowing with English and American fans, a mixed zone of beer and good-natured trash-talking.
During the couple of hours that we spend together at his apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the ambient musician and electronic luthier couches sage wisdom in good-natured shit talk.
Nothing in-depth or too personal, just good-natured table talk of the sort that one might have expected to engage in during the not-too-distant past in a public place.
Pop culture (movies, music, etc).. Casual, good-natured trash-talking.
The draft is one of the most entertaining days of the fantasy year, as team owners gather to pick what they hope will be the winning roster - and engage in a little good-natured trash talk along the way.
Alberto (Rodrigo de la Serna), lecherous, plump and gregarious, full of good-natured, blustery trash talk, is Falstaff to Fuser's Prince Hal.
But despite his good-natured evasions, his talk of winging it and his apparent surprise at fans reading so much into his titles, he sometimes – almost despite himself – hints at a hidden perfectionism.
