volubility
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Volubility is something Marías has in common with his narrators, but his fiction doesn’t simply reproduce this habit; it ironizes and interrogates it.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019
Volubility is not necessarily a sign of a large vocabulary; much talking or even ready speech is quite compatible with moving round and round in a circle of moderate radius.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
Falsetto is a feigned Voice, which is entirely formed in the Throat, has more Volubility than any, but of no Substance.
From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest
Volubility strangles it; and it is felt to be insincere when it grows loquacious.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
It is also certain, that as much as is allotted to Volubility and Tricks, so much is the Beauty of the Voice sacrificed; for the one cannot be done without Prejudice to the other.
From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest
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