Sentences with phrase «by prattling»

That this is accompanied in webby's case by prattling, preening and incompetence outside the ambit of any rational science at all — along with the obligatory smarmy sneers — seems par for the course for space cadets more generally.

I'd been intending to start by prattling on about the fact that it had taken five months to become confident of the Murci's handling.

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Get a grip on the idea that the good comes with the bad, and no amount of prattling by an arrogant uber - Christian will change anyone's mind.

Get a grip on the idea that the good come with the bad, and no amount of prattling by an arrogant uber - Christian will cahnge anyone's mind.

And I'm sort of tempted to say that it's unhelpful to have Blond prattling about authoritarianism: he brings along so much excess baggage that those with genuine concerns in this area are likely to be swamped by his concomitant jibberish.

After a touching scene in which jockey Pollard is fed a bowl of soup by Bridges's self - made businessman, McCullough prattles on about the glory of FDR's social programs, his voiceover accompanied by black and white photos of men at soup kitchens.

Group therapy hardly helps with such a ham (Levinson wryly never shows us the other patients, while Pacino prattles on and on) and Skype sessions with his therapist (Dylan Baker) are sabotaged by the actor's own admission that if he sees a camera, he can't help but perform for it.

But in practical terms, what this most often comes down to is a series of vignettes involving superannuated Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society types (additionally played by Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, and Richard Jenkins — it's quite a cast) prattling on about the good - bad old days while the FBI dragnet, and that rapacious reporter, close in.

These lamentations by Rubinstein and Schjeldahl — and there are many examples by other writers I could have given — about painting's fallen status, its descent from Olympian greatness, remind me of people who preface everything with, «back in the good old days» or prattle on about how «you can't paint like Rubens» anymore, as if that is what the world needed most.

Node Center for Curatorial Studies is pleased to present «Frank Prattle», an interview style radio show / podcast run by the artist Zefrey Throwell to have a conversation - over-coffee with two Berlin curators and participants of the coming exhibition «Based in Berlin», Joep van Liefland (Autocenter) and Axel J. Wieder (Pro qm) at the Node Center of Curatorial Studies, Waldemarstr.

Seething resentment, an inability to frame an argument that isn't clumsy and repetitive abuse, opportunistic disparagement in a bad case of bad faith, noisy prattling and preening informed by superficial knowledge and astonishingly silly assumptions?