Apart from Ms. Swinton's digressive, occasionally overblown recollection, there are no sober talking heads analyzing his place in cinematic history and the British art world.
Instead of relying on sober talking heads and a litany of grim statistics, they wanted to combine high production values with deeply human stories to convey the urgency of climate change.
Many of those same sober talking heads also argue with equal passion that we can save ourselves, along with the sky above us and the earth below.
I'm glad the president gave a sober talk about where we're going in Iraq and in confronting terrorism.
So the sober talk this year is, in a counterintuitive way, refreshing to any investors who prefer to have their company reports straight rather than sugar-coated.
Britain's foreign secretary, Robin Cook, who visited Podgorica on April 25th, appeared confident that Mr Djukanovic had dropped plans to hold a plebiscite as early as July, so there would be time for some sober talks before any rush to secede.
And yet, when she is cited in sober talk about identity and "feeling black" versus "feeling white," it always feels like we are in a knockoff Adrienne Kennedy piece of absurdist theatre.
The juxtaposition between the testimony of the Moroccan, Karima el-Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby Heart-Stealer, with whom Mr. Berlusconi is accused of paying to have sex while she was a minor, and the sober talk of taxes perfectly captured the constraints on the fragile governing coalition.
NEW ORLEANS — Some 4,000 historians descended on New Orleans on Thursday for the American Historical Association's four-day annual meeting, replacing the chants of departing Sugar Bowl revelers with more sober talk of job interviews, departmental politics, and — at least in the official panels — the past itself.
There will indeed be plenty of sober talk about Mr. McVeigh and his victims in the days ahead in newspapers and on television, from an episode of "60 Minutes" on Sunday that will rebroadcast an interview with the condemned bomber, to a new "Headliners and Legends" profile of him running repeatedly on MSNBC.
Nothing quite so deplorable occurs, yet this is how he playfully rebukes Amanda, after some fairly sober talk about relationships and such: "You're seriously the most depressing girl I've ever met!" Diaz, who is 34 years old, plays a high-status professional who is surely entitled to consider herself exempt from the indignities of being addressed as a "girl".
