garrulity

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Finnegan was fascinated by Renneker — not only because of his wave knowledge and technical skill, but also because his brashness and garrulity cut against surfing’s “social contract,” which rewards understatement and cool.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2015

His silence is an eloquent and poignant counterpoint to Ms. McKinney’s garrulity; the drama of “Tabloid” resides in the asymmetry between them.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2011

That spirit lives and breathes throughout the octogenarian ex-Governor's autobiography, Connecticut Yankee, a lengthy document whose dry-sherry tang saves it from collapsing into garrulity.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity, Personal Maid Rose blurts out a childhood memory to Virginia Bellamy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Third, the correspondence can be read as an extended conversation between two gods on Mount Olympus because both men were determined to project that impression: “But wither is senile garrulity leading me?”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis