(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.
She made rapid small talk about her dog, eager to be liked.
Soon he was hosting an American version of the show and then, in rapid succession, talk and variety shows on both sides of the Atlantic.
Everyone, including Rundell, is a self-taught engineer -- they've had to be -- and there's rapid, purposeful talk of how to build a cement bridge, another first for the island.
The rapid-fire talks kicked off a one-of-a-kind collaboration among the three institutions in which each put up $1.5 million over three years to seed innovative but risky research.
By the age of twenty-three, Frost was the host of the popular satiric program "That Was the Week That Was". Soon he was hosting an American version of the show and then, in rapid succession, talk and variety shows on both sides of the Atlantic.
With his rapid-fire talk and glasses that seem to magnify his eyes, he could pass for a street preacher or a pamphleteer.
