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
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Covering Congress and Cape Canaveral and nuclear testing, Lamont is used to avalanches of garrulity, as well as fits of secrecy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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