Sentences with phrase «idle talk»

When a child makes a serious threat it should not be dismissed as just idle talk.

While idle talk can be fun, it also has the ability to create tension.

Effective interviews generate sales; ineffective interviews merely produce idle talk.

As of now, people are still on the fence about whether or not the audio is just idle talk or evidence of actual market manipulation.

An essayist and editor noted for his witty investigations of other everyday human traits like snobbery, envy and ambition, Epstein is himself a master of idle talk, and each chapter in the book is punctuated with a «diary» entry revealing some juicy scrap of high - brow gossip he's gleaned or witnessed.

And lest we forget, out on the Coast they are saying that this is a Trojan year, and it's not idle talk either.

In place of a positive account of ethical values, Heidegger holds up the goals of authenticity, resolution and liberating care as ways to overcome the inauthentic «they» who partake in idle talk and allow their possibilities to be decided for them.

Prayer of St. Ephraim O Lord and Master of my life take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power and idle talk +

Shot on a mobile phone with actors cast in situations where the social bonds are composed of idle talk — conversation as material — the piece offers an incredibly complex, jigsaw - puzzle picture of class relations in Cairo — all of which preceded and persisted through the thwarted 18 - day revolution that began in Egypt on 25 January 2011.

That's not idle talk.

Boyega's fandom isn't just idle talk, either.

Oxford was known throughout Europe as a party school, where students and dons alike devoted most of their energies to drinking, gaming, and idle talk.

I was in New York when the movie was previewed for the press, and heard some idle talk about how this movie was proof that if you had the right parents you could get hired in Hollywood.

Monban Kaeru wa Shagamitai By Retsu A gag comedy solely about the idle talk between a bird and a frog who guard a gate.

Those beliefs are not always founded on facts, but idle talk.

To Als, this was not the idle talk of a relatively privileged woman atoning for her white guilt.

People say he will take heat from his party about this, but in reality, they also know Mc can't deliver on his promises, so it is all idle talk (ala Bush's «Hydrogen Economy» rhetoric).

Idle talking; chattering, prating; gossiping; blabbing, tale - telling.

But the indications are that with Huawei this is not just idle talk.

I heard about Volkswagen discussing the possibility of a new, electric, MEB - archicture Kübelwagen or Thing a couple days ago, but was hesitant to write about it because, well, I'm not sure if it's just idle talk or if there's some grain of seriousness behind it.