(Policy debate, which is characterized by almost incomprehensibly rapid talking, has long been a male preserve).
When Mr. Meehan, hoarse after three hours of rapid talking, had finished, Mr. Apter, the lead prosecutor, began a one-hour rebuttal.
We don't ask time to turn backward, as the wistful poet did; we only ask that it proceeds at a sensible rate one that will let us settle down comfortably inside a year and watch the scenery drifting past and listen to the not very rapid talk of our friends.
His sing-song hyper-rapid talking; his candy-floss hair, a bolt from the blue: this guy was so weird, but so magnetic, so intoxicating this guy was making freakdom cool.
These serve as stages for his intensely physical performances, or "lectures," which involve rapid-fire talking, manipulation of hand-held objects and audience interaction.
Chuck Jones, who directed the Looney Tunes cartoons for Warner Brothers, is believed to have said that Bugs Bunny's carrot-chomping, relaxed standing position was inspired by a scene from the film It Happened One Night, in which the actor Clark Gable leans against a fence eating carrots at a rapid rate and talking to his female co-star with his mouth full.
Some children with school difficulties report increased susceptibility to distraction, trouble understanding speech in the presence of a competing background noise, following rapid speech and talking on the phone.
As we approached, a huge figure loomed over our youngest, talking rapid-fire in that gravelly baritone.
Then she led him on a tour, talking in rapid Spanish.
He subsequently released in rapid succession the classics Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life.
In Pondicherry, the government, keen to be part of India's rapid development, is now talking about building a new, bigger port.
