Word: mutteringly
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...stops, the bus gets really crammed--again. A few people mutter sardine comments, and a some women in heels massage their feet...
...vibrancy, The Quincunx occasionally seems to be too much of a good thing. In order to wring maximum suspense out of each encounter, Palliser allows his narrator some shameless stalling. "Not so fast," one character remarks, when asked a leading question, and the reader is inclined to mutter, "Faster." John's mother is particularly maddening in her refusals to answer her son's questions. A typical response: "No, I won't tell you that. Not yet. One day you'll know everything." Postulate a more forthcoming parent, and the novel would be 200 pages shorter...
...Hmmm, very impressive for a player struggling from the field to hit a clutch shot," Carril might mutter under his breath, now frowning. "The Crimson always seemed to miss the big shots at the end of the game last year...
...Honor -- that were funny, but in antithetical, unblendable ways. The movie veers uneasily from not-funny comedy to not-persuasive melodrama. Murphy forgets that the dialogue in old- fashioned crime pictures was as highly stylized as the settings. In place of sharply polished wisecracks, he gives us the steady mutter of the witless, unfelt obscenities that are the argot of our modern mean streets...
...mutter it under your breath, but if you're anywhere near the Crimson, keep it to yourself...