Example Sentences

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The two movies share a lot in common: crime, talkiness, Samuel L. Jackson.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2019

The female characters, good or bad, tend to have independent minds, and because of the length and talkiness of the episodes, much to say.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2015

There is a familiar Irish talkiness in her work—eloquent, heated, intimate—that is combined with a bitter reticence akin to that of Harold Pinter’s dramas.

From The New Yorker • May 18, 2015

GM displayed one of the key features of the post-bailout thank-you: talkiness.

From The Guardian • Jan. 8, 2013

As we have just seen, the lengthy historical account of what lies behind the opening scene is hard to convey without talkiness.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce