Sentence examples for talkfest from inspiring English sources
The word 'talkfest' is considered a colloquial term and can be used in written English in informal contexts
It is typically used to describe a situation or event where there is a lot of talk or discussion, often without much actual progress being made. Example: The meeting turned into a complete talkfest, with everyone voicing their opinions but no concrete decisions being made.
noun
A session of enthusiastic discussion or gossip.
In the corporatised and coal-company sponsored cocoon of a pre-G20 talkfest in Brisbane, the burst of vocal protest came like a sudden jolt of the reality of life outside.
A trip to a talkfest in Brazil aside, however, Mr Modi's own travel abroad has been rather parochial a jaunt to one Himalayan neighbour, tiny Bhutan, in June; and, from August 3rd, he plans another to Nepal.
Though Mr Berezovsky has not been charged with any wrongdoing, he was recently denied a visa to Switzerland, where he usually attends the annual talkfest at Davos; Swiss prosecutors are investigating the role of two of his Geneva-based companies in handling the overseas revenues of Aeroflot, Russia's national airline.
But with 9%-plus annual growth rates, you can start to believe in miracles.Back to top >>ThursdayTHE talkfest has been a pleasurable digression from my main purpose in travelling to Asia.
Britain has indeed done better than most rich countries in meeting the pollution targets set at the last UN-sponsored green talkfest in Rio, in 1992.
But in the fly-on-the-wall talkfest "La Vie au Ranch," as the 20-year-old Pamela parties, feuds with her absent boyfriend and hangs out with friends in a messy Paris apartment nicknamed "le Ranch," it becomes clear that the director, Sophie Letourneur, will stand back to observe the flow of life while deeper changes occur below the surface.
WHEN George Papandreou, the Greek opposition leader and president of the Socialist International a global association of centre-left parties convened the latest of his summer talkfests on the shores of the Aegean, the mood was upbeat.
In any case, getting people together without forcing them to lose integrity is exactly the challenge facing the organisers of these multiple and richly overlapping talkfests.
THE United Nations has high hopes of combating racial intolerance, and the violence it causes, with giant talkfests.
A cacophony of rival talkfests in New York in the coming days will include a UN conference on "racism"—known as Durban III because it follows a meeting in South Africa in 2001 that will feature much tub-thumping from anti-Western leaders.America, Canada and at least six EU countries will boycott the conference on the ground that it targets Israel far more than any other country.
Many are holding similar town hall talkfests in their districts.And ever more congressmen are making concrete reform proposals.
