Sentences with word «nattering»

"Nattering" means to talk in a continuous and often trivial or annoying way, without really saying anything important or meaningful. Full definition
We had such a good natter about friends and foes in the industry and what they were up to these days.
Chelsea 1 - 0 Sunderland: Mourinho is apparently in town nattering with the FA about the England job and I reckon that this performance (like many of late) will be very similar to the Mourinho era.
We don't apply what we know to our view of what's happening around us, we don't seek his counsel constantly, and subsequently, we forsake the guidance of the Holy Spirit that guides us in natters of the spirit.
I mean the author has to take a whole chapter's worth of digression to just natter on about the common aspects of life in Nantucket.
From the opening moments with Greta Gerwig and Bill Hader nattering in Union Sq to the jaunty European score, a strong but agreeable bang of Woody Allen wafts off Maggie's Plan.
Island excursions can be arranged and your knowledgeable and informed hosts are up for a good natter about all things Indonesian anytime.
«I spend a ton of time here, nattering away on the phone or enjoying a glass of wine with my partner, Mike.»
If you aren't interested in going through the Alexa Skills Store, you can just say «Alexa, help me get started with skills» and Alexa will hit you with a few skills to try out, like Daily Quotes to hear natterings from people like Taylor Swift or Albert Einstein, or The Tonight Show to hear Jimmy Fallon's latest monologue.
Duesberg's constant natter about problems with oncogenes as the cause of cancer seemed to them a distraction, even an obstruction.
We have water - cooler calls on occasion, where the team just natter, and we introduce new members of the team as we add special advisors.
Make sure you talk to a range of people; don't spend the entire time nattering away to the graduate trainees.
People, all of them kind - hearted, persistently natter around the edges of the problem of a suffering dog, wringing their hands and complaining, trying to make authorities do something for the dog that the authorities clearly can't legally do, or clearly don't want to do.
I had a lovely natter with The Gourmet Goat Lady as I nibbled on her smoked goat.
And while it's true that the goalposts and collective mood have both irrevocably shifted since the spate of recent catastrophes in Bangladeshi and Cambodian factories, much of the soul - searching done by international brands has been just that: a lot of waffle, platitudes and some well - meaning natter.
I find Ranier's complete disregard of world history to be as simplistic as his apologist natterings defending his religion, even as he bashes Catholicism.
They were always nattering at one another over something or nothing, on and on in their cartoonish Old World accents.
No nutrition natter, no meandering wend through the history of kale, just recipes.
They're the two nattering dopes in the back of the classroom who can't pay attention to the lesson and make everyone's lives more miserable for it.
Just to make the point again — it is NOT a problem if you do not list daily — we're just a great bunch who enjoy a virtual natter, who support and inspire each other and have a bit of fun!
This week my heart broke for the talented blogger Wendy who is responsible for the fabulous site Naptime natter, as her son was rushed into hospital extremely ill and with doctors not really able to tell her what it was (although thank heavens it wasn't Meningitis).
Yet, for students to succeed, parents must stop the incessant chatter, nagging, and mindless nattering that fail to recognize that kids need parents to just not say anything.
The GOP nattering nanobes of negativism may also try to link the expiration of the tax cuts to an direct attack on Social Security..
Meeting now in Nagoya, jaded government officials and well - intentioned environmentalists natter on but nothing ever seems to come of these negotiations, despite the long list of signatures on said convention.
I love girls night's in and I think it's really far more easy that it sounds to have a healthy one, the other week we all ate veggies and dips, olives etc whilst nattering and it was great.
Lamorne Morris and Kylie Bunbury play Kevin and Michelle, together since middle school but not without a fling (hers) and its attendant, rampant, nattering jealousies (his).
Their relationship is based on the kind of acerbic bickering born of a childhood of rules (during a scatological insult contest, for example, repeating a theme constitutes a loss), and their bored and irritable nattering feels natural and comfortable.
Ironically, this manufacture is so inconsequential and rote that what the filmmakers hope will tie their film together is a mere nattering and easily overlooked distraction that does little to support or enervate the power of the apocalyptic images and ideas on parade.
Gone is the documentary and experimental electronica group Goblin's grandiloquent soundtrack CD (tribal rhythms, nattering keyboards, human sibilance); remaining is the gorgeous, THX - approved video transfer that does justice to Antonioni cinematographer Luciano Tovoli's astonishing images.
Those scenes with stars such as Lawrence Olivier and Ursula Andress as the gods on Olympus endlessly nattering on and on are all «soft» and grainy.
Bored and annoyed by the daily catty nattering of all the other moms at the playground, she befriends Brad (Patrick Wilson), a stay - at - home dad.
Now 81, Jackson has not been on Broadway since 1988 — she spent 23 of the intervening years as a member of the British Parliament — and here she plays the character identified as A: a rich, mean elderly woman nattering about her life as she nears the end of it.
My final dispatch from Park City ponders movies and meditations, thrilled by some philosophical sci - fi from an old pro and bored by more New York nattering from an up - and - comer.
Though they find out soon enough, they keep him around because his intellectual nattering amuses them.
So important are these motivators and explicators that it's fair to wonder what exactly the rest of the film fritters away its hours nattering on about; fair to say that I don't have any idea.
Of the novel's many charms, some of the more delightful were the occasional interruptions of Robertson's narration by the merry natterings of his tapeworm, which were splurged across the page in bold, sans - serif type.
At a Swiss spa, upper - class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMurtry); and her tremulous, nattering mother (Cloris Leachman).
Writing for me involves characters who pop into my head and natter until their stories are told.
I slogged through the prologue — which is all the mother of Anne and George and Mary Boleyn mourning her lost children (and musing on the fun and anatomical gifts of various of HER lovers... yeah, that was odd) and obsessively nattering on about all her thorny, spiky, poisonous gardening... Yeah, this one was hella weird pretty much from the get - go.
... Well, this book is quite particular and I knew fairly early on that it wasn't going to handily fit into a traditional publishing genre, unless «explicit comedy memoir with a bit of how to and self help and feminist natter thrown in» became a genre.
The problem is that their nonstop nattering can distract, confuse and mislead.
But dinner did, of course, arrive; a banquet of different dishes that we ate on the floor of the only room while the family nattered outside.
The main barn, decked out with old wood beams and wood floors and an open plan kitchen cum living room turned out to be a lovely space to convene, natter over tea and dine together over the next two nights and three days.
Poolside, an open bale offers more opportunity for ocean gazing, beer sipping, enjoying your included breakfast, or just having a good old natter to the very friendly owners.
The AI helpers nattering about raspberries helps give it a certain charm.

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