Sentence examples for parlor talk from inspiring English sources

Slowly, the characters emerge, and the chatter among the critters is made to sound like the parlor talk of aristocrats.

The rumors made for great parlor talk around Silicon Valley for months, then finally petered out.

I wanted to bring the parlor talk, the barber and beauty shop conversations, to light.

As large-scale and long-term projects fought for clearance before City Council, food security, urban farming and zoning battles became de rigeuer parlor talk for city folk.

(One episode consisted entirely of LaVonda, at the beauty parlor, talking to people on her cellphone).

("Grace had me pinned in the parlor, talking about the superiority of European lace, while Dr. Hemingway hovered with a plate of cheeses and beets he'd preserved himself, from his garden in Walloon Lake").

These are all curious questions that became parlor room talk as the Jackson saga unfolded.

So many of us can't believe Fortunoff's is no more; everybody at the beauty parlor was talking about it".

When the women need to let off steam, they adjourn to the beauty parlor, where the talk is blunt and the laughter raucous.

1. Acne. 2. Device in the classic, oh-my-fucking-God, how-did-no-adult-ever-stop-me-from-playing-this-with-all-of-my-friends-at-age-nine, it-is-so-hilariously-deeply-misogynist teen parlor game Girl Talk, wherein a player would be forced to place a small red dot sticker on her face in order to register her lack of worth as a romantic partner, creative talent, or friend.

But the script seems hamstrung between smart-alecky self-consciousness -- a Skee-Ball parlor operator who talks like a snide graduate student, a waitress who hands over a menu with the comment "It's as thick as 'The Fountainhead' " -- and heart-wrenching naturalism.