Sentences with phrase «who prattles»

As to what is said, for somebody who prattles on about the importance of different ways of knowing, and the need to include humanities within the ambit of the IPCC, Mike Hulme is pretty clueless.

Indeed, those who prattle about the dangers of isolationism only divert attention from more pressing concerns.

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

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Who spends hours upon hours on a CNN forum prattling on ad nuaseum to reaffirm that which they don't believe to whom?

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.

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.

Essentially he is paid to prattle on for hours a day so the drones who listen to him can repeat his inane ideas as though they were their own.

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.

Those commentators (I only mention this because I was not one of them) who constantly prattled on about her leadership ambition must be feeling rather red - faced.

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.

(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.)

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).

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.

Interviewees who launch into lengthy explanations, pummel their interviewer with questions, or feel compelled to fill any silences with irrelevant prattle could later become the employees everyone seeks to avoid.