“If an obviously egomanic twit makes wonderful music, should his prattery disqualify him?”
“Marcus Willis... had been driving the coaches at the Lawn Tennis Association to distraction, and with this latest bit of prattery finally pushed his luck too far.”
“The patrolman had the misfortune to be assigned a beat that ran past the house of Ms. McDougall, a notorious prattler and neighborhood gossip.”
“Was there ever such a prattler as the warm-hearted little brook that ran by the foot of the garden of Woodbine Cottage?”
“In a millisecond, they segue back from a real person with envy and memories and a life before this one into the more comfortable persona of corporate prattler.”
