| He loathed small talk, particularly that involving weather, or worse, sports, anything that did not really matter. |
| On social occasions, small talk on neutral topics is appropriate and modest gifts are given. |
| The awkward small talk is as communicatively insipid as the first time you asked someone out on a date. |
| After some small talk my mother noticed Callie's ballet slippers that still shod my little feet. |
| The inanity, the empty politeness of small talk is revealed by its absence. |
| Without having been introduced and before the usual small talk, they struck up a conversation about it. |
