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For them, detente would be anathema.Hossein Shariatmadari, the influential editor of Keyhan, a conservative newspaper, contrasts the government's unwillingness to disclose details of nuclear negotiations with American loquacity on the subject.
His theme was that loquacity can be all too easily pressed into service as a cover for mendacity.
As for radio, it might have been used for two-way chit-chat half a century earlier than it was, had it not been for disapproving regulators and a lack of bandwidth.For communications companies, human loquacity should be wonderful news.
The Scot prefers to do his talking on the track, and so far this year that loquacity has reaped a fourth, a seventh and two eighth-place finishes.
Manic symptoms consist of feelings of inflated self-esteem or grandiosity, a decreased need for sleep, unusual loquacity , an unconnected flow of ideas, distractibility, or excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences, such as buying sprees or sexual indiscretions.
Clive's loquacity , his almost compulsive need to talk and keep conversations going, served to maintain a precarious platform, and when he came to a stop the abyss was there, waiting to engulf him.
He got the loquacity without the wit.
This sounds like a wonderful pretext for a book, and it is: Ambrosio is a heck of a teller, a natural ham (nicely complementing his artisanal cheese) whose fits of emotion and loquacity are delightfully barmy.
Secondary characters become almost incidental: the Nurse's comic loquacity is gone, and Mercutio, played by Hale Appleman as a louche, androgynous troublemaker (at one point he romps around in a fluffy fake fur) doesn't get to rhapsodize about Queen Mab.
William Hazlitt, a Krystal favorite cited in no fewer than five of the 12 essays, buttresses this argument: "Reading, study, silence, thought are a bad introduction to loquacity".
He was first, of course, a singer of folky loquacity , and a serious student of the music's antediluvian influences: what the critic Greil Marcus calls "the old, weird America".
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The primary grammatical function of "loquacity " is as a noun , denoting a quality or characteristic. It functions as the subject or object in a sentence, describing the state of being talkative. Ludwig's examples show it used to describe a person's tendency to talk excessively.
Expression frequency: Very common
