Word: chatteringly
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...each others’ lives. Much like any other change of gears, these Catch-Up Car Confabulations do not spontaneously begin the moment the engine guns; it certainly take a few minutes for passengers to adjust to the intimate car environment. But a comfortable silence or light chatter marks the build up to a true Car Confabulation, imitating any other form of human intimacy...
...usual meat-market environment of trendy Boston nightclub Avalon is curiously changed tonight. The excited chatter is about two octaves higher than usual, and a quick inspection reveals a 20:1 girl to guy ratio. Indeed, it seems the only specimens of the male persuasion are reluctant boyfriends—one of them is curiously out of place in a Jim Morrison jacket, trying to look nonchalant. Somewhere, off in the far rear section of the line, an impossibly shrill voice pierces the winter frost and highlights the ineffable strangeness of the night...
...Wouldn't be any worse? O happy day! Throw in some Street-beating numbers from Alcoa (for the Dow) and some bullish chatter - by analysts on Yahoo and eBay, and by Fed governors about the U.S.' chances of dodging a recession - and the market party was on. Both the Dow and the NASDAQ shot up early and stayed up late, and by day's end the industrials and techs had notched gains of 402 and 146, respectively. (That's 8.9 percent for the currently microscopic NASDAQ, by the way, its third-biggest percentage gain ever...
...hates that sponging little punk for all the tablets he smoked a few hours ago--tablets she could be smoking right now. Back then, she had a dozen tablets packed into a plastic soda straw stuffed down her black wire-frame bra. The hut was alive with the chatter of half a dozen speed addicts, all pulling apart their Krong Tip packs and sucking in meth smoke through metal pipes. Now that the pills are gone, the fun is gone. And Bing, of course, he's long gone...
...anxiety Klaxons may go off the instant the therapy begins. Gradually, however, as each exposure level is reached, the alarms start to quiet; they sound again only when the intensity of the exposure is turned up. "Just as people become habituated to the noise of traffic or background chatter, so too can phobics become nonresponsive to the thing that once frightened them," says Phillipson...