Sentence examples for was partly talking from inspiring English sources

She was partly talking of the upgraded public transportation system.

Mr. Burns "was cutting-edge once, and now he's traditional," Ms. Goldstein said, but his fans, of which she is one, appreciate that "these films are partly talking head but also a kind of wonderful deference to those who mattered in the past".

It was partly the drugs talking, but it was also fame.

And I'm only partly talking about what Kevin Drum thinks are the overwhelming reasons for opposition to development: antipathy to traffic, congestion and noise.What I'm talking about is this: in many cases, allowing unlimited rapid development leads to the annihilation of the very characteristics that made a neighbourhood such a desirable location in the first place.

This is partly because talking about each other can be useful.

By the time he wrote "The Glass Menagerie," he had got enough technical distance from his mother to know how to craft a play that was partly fuelled by her ungovernable talk — talk that he used to help shape the poetic betrayal he had to write in order to become himself.

She was partly paralyzed, and learned to talk again only after months of therapy.

In the book, we talk about how Japan's more successful modernization drive starting in the 1860s was partly inspired by Chinese reformers' talk of fuqiang.

It was partly to head off such talk that PhRMA made an offer to the White House.

The Sept. 24 New York Times described the speech as "a half-hour talk that was partly personal, including a frank exposition of his finances, and partly an appeal for support of the Republican ticket".

In private, White House officials have conceded that they sent out contradictory, and sometimes wrong, messages about the precautions Americans should take, and Mr. Bush's talk tonight was partly intended to soothe a nervous country, while urging Americans to keep up their guard.