Sentence examples for talk pleasantly from inspiring English sources

When Marian Sutro, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in Britain, volunteers to train as an agent for the government's ultrasecretive Special Operations Executive in World War II, she is instructed, "We like our people to learn to talk pleasantly and say nothing".

To walk turkey is to strut like one and to say or talk turkey is either, depending on context, to use pretentious language (gobbling, in effect), to talk pleasantly, or to speak very frankly.

Call them and talk pleasantly with them - they will usually be quite helpful and may have some sort of mechanism in place to deal with a sudden financial hardship.

They talked pleasantly until the bus reached Passaic.

They talked pleasantly about home and finally got on the subject of food and drink.

He talked pleasantly about the old "stupid bombs" and the new "smart bombs," which, he said, he and his friends referred to as Fat Alberts - after a character created by the comedian Bill Cosby.

Late at night you wobble through the darkened streets, still talking, feeling pleasantly at one with the world.

I know that my father is concerned with face so instead of showing my true feelings about that young man I talked very pleasantly with him and his parents.

"When it last happened in 1967, when the players went off the park they had arms round shoulders, talking away pleasantly - there was no triumphalism.

"No, actually there hasn't been talk," Williams said, pleasantly but pointedly.

We had our talk in a pleasantly cluttered study, and when we commented on the absence of push buttons and other contemporary gear, Mr. Gruen gave a ferocious growl.