Although this talkative personage arrives without warning, leaving Everyman — who has passed his life in pursuit of worldly pleasures — frantically unprepared to face the final reckoning, Roth's hero is beset by the kind of modern medical warnings that keep death ever present in one's mind.
And, like Phogg, who could not have done his travels without his talkative companion Mr Passepartout (literally translated 'goes anywhere'), we would be lost without our trusted renal pathologist with whom we can go anywhere and who invokes the explorer in us.
She was friendly and talkative, opening up quickly and talking for about 45 minutes without me asking many questions.
For 37 years, Rohmer has being turning out this kind of gentle and - for modern cinemagoers - perilously talkative examination of human relationships without ever faltering.
She was friendly and talkative, opening up quickly and talking for about three quarters of an hour without me asking many questions.
Moss, known for his talkative ways on the field, plays the role without a script.
A tall man in Hunter wellies looks a talkative fellow but he strides off with a bag of salad without a word.
