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Much of the solo vocal writing is stentorian and talky, moving the story along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
What can you say about how you filmed the courtroom scenes and kept this long, talky film, nimble?
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023
But no one in the industry expected that a long, talky, R-rated drama released at the height of the summer movie season would earn over $900 million at the box office.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
He wrangled the eclectic, if erratic, score — a succession of talky set pieces in which arias are more like brief soliloquies — into a coherent, flowing drama.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
And look at the modest, talky straightforwardness of phrases like, “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Frankly, those talkier segments stall some of the narrative momentum, and “Night Raiders” never really builds in intensity, as it should.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Much of the power in these scenes — and the talkier ones — arises from their riskiness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
Their musical point of view—belligerent but wounded—felt a little like outlaw country, a genre that had recently formed in opposition to the slick Nashville scene, but their songs were talkier, more cerebral.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
It’s agreeably silly, and sometimes appealingly slapsticky, compared to the talkier likes of Blockers or Game Night.
From The Verge ● Dec. 28, 2018
This book feels longer and talkier than the first two, and the plot is more convoluted, bouncing from Moscow and Washington to Greece, New York, Khartoum, Macao and Hong Kong.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2018
The opener, with Charlotte Flair winning the title NXT Championship from Rhea Ripley, was another very physical match, albeit the talkiest to that point.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020
The Stephen Sondheim number Ms. McDonald chose, the Baker’s Wife song “Moments in the Woods,” from “Into the Woods,” was one of his talkiest.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2013
Less a civil war Saving Private Ryan than a 19th-century prequel to The West Wing, Spielberg's wide-angle account of the abolition of slavery is his talkiest film, but all the better for it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
Even at its talkiest, the U.N. does serve a useful purpose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among her handicaps: a somewhat watered-down characterization, and most of the movie's talkiest passages.
From Time Magazine Archive
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