| Then he droned on for an hour, so softly I could hardly hear a word over the post-dinner chitchat. |
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| After a bit more chitchat, our group reassembled and followed the river back downstream. |
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| There is desultory chitchat on the verandah as evening slides into pitch-dark night. |
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| As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering. |
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| Many of these calls sound like, you know, chitchat between two love-struck teenagers. |
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| It must be possible to get away from mateyness, the lingua franca and analytical chitchat in discussing music, yet still say something real. |
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| It was the same distinguished guests, same idle chitchat, same stifling atmosphere of blue blood. |
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| Later, as we enjoyed a complimentary drink back at the cabin while we squared up the bill, he attempted his first bit of chitchat with me. |
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| After a little chitchat with his co-workers, Jim picks up the day's assignments from his supervisor. |
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| No chitchat, but about the meaning of life, about the trust in God, always about the art of being grateful. |
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| You can always stand aside all battles and just meet your friends in game and chitchat about whatever you like. |
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| Before you know it, your dinner table will be alive with the sounds of chitchat, laughter and strong family connections. |
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| Nevertheless, some degree of superficial chitchat is common and can help break the ice. |
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| We never try to boost the budget line of the project by chitchat about puzzling technological phrasings. |
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| We manage 90 seconds of incidental chitchat before conversation dries up. |
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| To reap the biggest benefits from having someone to train with, however, you need to avoid the idle chitchat and follow these guidelines on how to spot properly. |
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| The messages from the fake Bolton began with chitchat, and expressed a desire to get together after all these years. |
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| During our talk, I learned immediately that Allred does not have time for chitchat. |
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| After everyone obligatorily restored the room to its default state, they congregated one last time outdoors for photo opportunities and idle chitchat. |
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| And after enough chitchat to warrant three rounds of quarters for the parking meter, Odenkirk has to go. |
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| The guests continued to chitchat through the meal, the conversation lulling to a dull murmur near the middle as they became full and rather sleepy. |
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| Hence the chitchat about Henderson's Relish: every time Helders goes back to Sheffield, he packs four bottles of it in his suitcase to keep him going. |
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| Wasting no time on between-song chitchat, Suede work up a brash head of steam, their sense of purpose anchored in the Suede-ian dramas of suburban dreams and squalor. |
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| The proposals to create deep geological disposal facilities by specific deadlines are so poorly substantiated that they are in fact no more than idle chitchat. |
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| Feinstein divagates in the engaging, informal tone of post-show chitchat, often repeating himself as he skitters from topic to topic, and couching his thoughts in the nebulous stock phrases of show-business conversation. |
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| Jeanne Powell will tell stories using labrish a traditional Jamaican form of chitchat. |
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| A stranger will smile warmly at you, but there normally won't be any of that strangerly chitchat in waiting areas or checkout lines. |
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| For relaxation and a chitchat, Sartorius Thailand staff invited their customers to a happy hour during which a famous German beer brand was served. |
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| I watch the show go out live from one of the OB trucks: it's the mix of pre-recorded interviews and on-air chitchat that's kept Football Focus on air for four decades. |
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| He vigorously resisted auteurism of both the hobbyist and the sacerdotal varieties, and kept away from canons and nostalgia and chitchat and received ideas. |
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