Sentences with phrase «prattles in»

The film ultimately belongs to Riggan, who suffers repeated humiliations (learning a drunk Carver probably wrote a prized note, having to wander Times Square in his underwear after a mishap with a stage door, and getting a lambasting from Lindsay Duncan's cruel critic) while the voice of his movie alter - ego prattles in his head about the actor's failures, and Keaton, whose performance finds the right balance between longing determination and outright insanity.

But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon no longer be listening to God either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God too.

Not exact matches

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Seldom does a month passes in which there's not a major conference somewhere on the subject, usually featuring a panel of prominent Perrier - sipping economists prattling on about whether money really can buy happiness.

This chart shows Prattle scores for FOMC meeting participants» speeches given in the weeks leading up to the FOMC meetings in September and December 2013 and March and June 2014.

At work, in restaurants, with husbands or with wives, we warm them in our hands, their prattle low and light against our thighs.

Maybe it's just that I am sane... Christians often prattle on about having a choice of accepting Christ or spending eternity in hell.

Why do you insist on prattling on and on in a language you haven't even begun to master?

He insists in his sunny prattle that he is «a mere child,» while he is fact a grotesque parasite: a colossal tick, a leech, a tapeworm with a taste for Mozart, who, it turns out, is childlike in his pursuit of pleasure, but shrewd and willful in his studied neglect of responsibility.

Christians often prattle on about having a choice of accepting Christ or spending eternity in hell.

When a Galway man wearing a soiled suit and a two - day beard prattled on about his country's athletic triumphs, de Bruin, who speaks fluent English, listened in a bemused, detached way.

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.

Stuart, I agree with your points - but I'd find it easier to credit Blond with the same insights if he hadn't just been in the USA prattling on about the terribleness of «rights - based societies».

Nothing is more unattractive than prattling on and on about the problems in your past relationship because you've not dealt with negative emotions.

This feels like a movie that was grown in a petri dish — poked and prodded with all manner of overcooked symbolism and thesis statements, but fatally absent the genuine human emotions about which it incessantly prattles on.

It's a film that out wags the dog's tail in prattle unable to have the demented Bulworth say what he would do when elected, except what is implied — that the people will trust him because he's so hip.

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.

In truth he prattles about Chekhov, Gauguin, Hamlet and above all the plays of O'Neill («they're dark») as if profundity can be acquired through the medium of namedropping.

Similarly, when Buscemi's character tweaks Stormare's as a «smart guy,» the roles have been reversed post-Miller's Crossing, with the prattling Buscemi filling in for Tom Reagan and Stormare inheriting the lethal mantle of the Dane.

Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg and Mike Myers star in Vaughn Stein's lurid, Cronenbergian revenge tale «Terminal,» but 20 minutes into its groaner prattle and inaccessible characters, the shoot - everbody finale of «Reservoir Dogs» would be a welcome relief.

Sibling filmmakers Ben and Joshua Safdie, working from a script based on Holmes» «Mad Love in New York City,» capture a colorful street life of sleepy - eyed stoners, drunks and junkies, prattling on about fights they've had, cops they've dodged and TV's «Cosmos.»

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.

Ever since a tiny Jonathan Lipnicki prattled on about the weight of the human head in «Jerry Maguire,» a parade of overzealous kid prodigies have appeared on - screen and quickly worn out their welcomes.

(There's a little bit of Ricky Gervais's David Brent in Gary's incessant, obliviously mean - spirited joking — the prattling of a man who always has to get the last dirty word.)

Unless you buy into the uninformed prattle that bemoans educators short work - day and work - year, you'll likely rank teachers among the hardest - working (and least - compensated) professionals in our solar system.

Item 4C on this month's CTC agenda is a case in point: self - congratulatory prattle from the BTSA industry (i.e., teachers who exited the classroom for higher pay and lighter duties).

She'd taught my American father and me just enough of the language for us to say «One moment» in Armenian — Meg vayrgean — when people called and started prattling away about needing a ride to the doctor, the lawyer, or the green - card office.

My human opens the gate and prattles something to me about being a «good bunny» and that when she sees me next, I will be in a nice warm place.

Graphics aren't nearly as important as the gameplay, so I won't prattle on forever... but the graphics go a long way in helping to sell this tale of a «world that's been divided».

The story is fairly interesting but really should of been kept to the odd line in gameplay and just pre-mission cutscenes, the game will prattle on nonsensically constantly and intrusively.

It's become noticeable that while the British art world — it's museum dominated segment in particular — still prattles happily about «emerging artists», convincing examples...

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.

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 hate Conspiracy Theory Prattle but I've done enough research to understand the alliteration in folklore.

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?

I would suppose that most of us who prattle herein have traveled at least a little in the Third World.

Bill has turned his burning desire for a Utopian climate where all his outdoor pursuits are steeped in perfect weather conditions into a mindless regurgitation of the attention seekers» endless prattle about the end of the world.

In other words, even after the climate has hit bottom, IPCC will still be prattling on about the good old days (or general climate model scenarios for 2100).

Talk about all of these in three or four brief paragraphs: like your customer in your textbook case of customer service, your prospective employer has no time to listen to you prattle on or grovel.