Word: chatteringly
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...carried to such an extreme that it becomes ridiculous. Yet, every so often Ionesco shows us a glimmering of reality that other writers seldom uncover. InThe Bald Soprano the characters seem to say whatever comes to their minds--momentary antagonisms, sexual impulses, errant thoughts, and every-day chatter. There are dull stretches, but such devices as mixed verb tenses when speaking of death give an interesting timelessness to the play. Ionesco is often incomprehensible, but seldom meaningless, and he seems to be saying "Look how strange and funny mankind...
...rocklike immobility. The only way to achieve success, Maggie sees, is to do it on her own and, with the men away in World War II, she does. She leaps ever higher up the dizzy crags of Madison Avenue, until she reaches the pinnacle-her own radio chatter program...
...Kefauver handshake has deservedly become a national monument. It is not bone-crushing, or even firm. It is limp but not clammy. An inward turn of the wrist prevents pressure that would later cause aches and pains. Unlike Adlai Stevenson, Kefauver does not chatter as he shakes; he utters one friendly sentence and reaches for the next hand. As he shakes with his right hand, he applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention...
Grace After Grandeur. The music goes into an arietta by Lully (Louis XIV's favorite composer), sung in a sweetly plaintive soprano voice. From the 17 great windows of the Hall of Mirrors, lights blaze as courtiers chatter and fawn. In the distance a voice proclaims, "Gentlemen, the King!" The monarch's cane clumps louder and louder on the floor as he approaches, and a burst of triumphal music rings out as "the greatest King" enters...
Vain Hope. At 9:44 a.m. all was gay chatter aboard the Rangoon-Prome Express. At 9:45 an earth-shattering explosion, followed in quick succession by two more, picked up long sections of the track and shook the cars in the air like wet laundry. Gunfire poured from the trackside paddyfields and jungle as two cars of the train plowed into the disabled engine ahead. Other cars of the long train overturned in a nightmare of confusion, as tumbled, screaming passengers were impaled on splinters or crushed in the press of twisted steel...