Sentences with phrase «jabbering for»

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«Those hearing that jabbering Lancastrian monotone for the first time, taking in that 6ft 9in shaven - headed, motor - mouthed, deeply menacing figure, might be tempted to dismiss Fury as simply a bully and a goon, a Twitter troll made flesh, Dapper Laughs with muscles.

The esoteric jabber (for instance: «if you were a big wienie at the strip you certainly wouldn't drive a rat, you'd probably drive a gasser that gobbles and take the bash») is foreign to his own speech, which flows slowly and lucidly.

As I sit at my desk to compose this post, my now one year old rainbow miracle is jabbering away in the living room, freshly - washed and ready for bed.

Ed Balls, sitting behind Harman, is jabbering away making this tougher for Hunt.

You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about «what Iowa meant» for the last few days, and you also showed up in record numbers and demonstrated that participatory democracy is not quite dead in this country.

You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about «what Iowa meant» for the last few days, and you also showed up in record numbers and demonstrated...

It was a compelling scenario, and I scribbled out several pages, along the way making the point that the news would be particularly hard on women, given their documented fondness for what sociolinguist Deborah Tannen calls «rapport talk» — that constant stream of friendly jabber that seems to reassure them that they're still alive and that no one's currently threatening their young.

Thanks for joining me today as I jabbered on about picnics.

If you've had a fair break away from singledom — maybe you've just come out of a relationship, or you're trying this «online» thing for the first time — then a jabber of jargon awaits you: words and phrases that reflect the difficulties, and manifold forms, of finding a relationship in this chaotic modern world of ours.

► A woman carries a rifle down to a road on her farm where she sees a man wearing a biohazard - radiation suit and he shouts and cries for joy when he finds clean air; the woman follows the man to a pond beneath a waterfall and watches him, as he stands in it, bare from the waist up until he falls down, ill and jabbering nonsensically until she points a rifle at him, lowers it and he points a handgun at her and fires, missing her; the woman tells the man to get out of the radiation - contaminated water and he startles, climbs out and scans himself with a Geiger counter that clicks loud and fast as he spits water toward the camera followed by watery yellowish vomit and she helps him to his handcart on the road, where she administers an anti-radiation injection (please see the Substance Use category for more details).

A man jabbers incoherently from radiation poisoning and a woman takes him to her farmhouse, places him under covers in a large bed and sponges his face with a wet cloth for a few days, also providing injections below the frame on two occasions; in a few more days, she holds him up as he walks and he progresses to pulling himself along wall moldings, using a cane and finally recovering fully.

It was jaw - dropping... even if the characters did have a bad habit of jabbering on for far too long via «codec» radio about philosophical tangents.

By the same token, if you're someone who always prefers to show up in a jabbering throng at your local megaplex for tentpole movies on their first day — especially in IMAX — instead of arriving full of hope at small art houses, this list isn't for you, either.

There's nothing less sexy than Beavis and Butthead jabber, so it comes as a shock when Reynolds steps up, rather than suppressing, his puerile banter when his character meets the story's love interest, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), a former escort with a body to die for who happens to have the same mega-geeky comic - book tastes as Wade.

I won't bother to make up stories for why it happened so, it just did, but Douglas & Damion managed to continue without me as they manage to discuss everything but the podcast and eventually get around to saying some gibber jabber about... Continue reading «TUMP [EP # 100 — ANOTHER EARTH]»

the frame just sits there, stationary, for what feels like minutes, as we watch a couple having a conversation in a cleverly - placed mirror, or Casey pacing around outside, smoking, anxiously rattling off rapid - fire architecture jibber - jabber to herself.

The reader is, for authors, the ultimate authority, because without readers, we're back to being lunatics jabbering our stories to a cold, uncaring moon.

Such thinking is good jabber in college classrooms, but when you find yourself face - to - face with pleading eyes, imploring for your help, it is never as cut and dried.

Even for the Senate, where members are well - known to prefer talking to listening, the amount of unilateral jabbering on the climate change bill has been remarkable, with lawmakers both for and against the measure arguing repeatedly over how much time was allotted for them to speak.

Even if he did, just the way the guy talks about things (jabbers, really) indicates a temperament and intellect wholly unsuited for his (expected) elected position.

As you say, getting the contrarians to stop jabbering and actually * read * and * think for themselves * is like getting cats to play the trombone.

My answer consisted of «an LLC stands for limited liability corporation,» which is wrong, followed by two pages of nonsensical jibber - jabber.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before thFor example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before thfor example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before thfor those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

Busuu is another online language course that prides itself on providing all the tools you'll need to start jabbering someone's ear off in a foreign tongue, while still being able to offer the lion's portion of its course materials on the web for no cost to the consumer.

They jabber that after just a few months exhaust, their machine turned boring which resulted in contaminated user experience for them.