Sentence examples for shallow talk from inspiring English sources

Shallow talk, deep snow".

She wants to shout at them all, and then leave, but stays instead to listen to their shallow talk.

Not with shallow talk of things that are easy, but with the can-do American spirit of achieving great goals that are hard.

They are more walls than words and they comprise sports talk, weather talk, gossip, and any kind shallow talk that can serve as a buffer rather than a connector.

But in any context when it refers to shallow talk about others who are facing their share of worries and tribulations in life, we really must remember that gossip is not at all as trivial as we may construe it in the midst of conversation.

The scene in which John is confronted by Ms. Chimo's shallow talk-show host feels especially unworthy of its author.

We had deep talks and shallow talks and drunk talks and sober talks.

Is it always shallow to talk about your kids?

Emily Nussbaum's dismissal of the "shallow deep talk" in True Detective (New Yorker, March) reminded me of something I struggled with as a rock critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

True to the image of the stereotypical party-Russian, my comrades were wonderfully uninhibited, wasting no time on shallow small talk, instead getting right into personal aspirations and family histories.

"We were paddling around in the shallow end talking about small money transfers.