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Much of the solo vocal writing is stentorian and talky, moving the story along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

What can you say about how you filmed the courtroom scenes and kept this long, talky film, nimble?

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023

But no one in the industry expected that a long, talky, R-rated drama released at the height of the summer movie season would earn over $900 million at the box office.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

Throughout, Davidsen alternates between conversational restraint — enunciating each syllable of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s talky libretto with penetrating focus — and white-hot radiance.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

We’re talking the whole way on the train, talky talk, chattering at each other across the aisle of the swaying car like edgy ball players.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Frankly, those talkier segments stall some of the narrative momentum, and “Night Raiders” never really builds in intensity, as it should.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

Much of the power in these scenes — and the talkier ones — arises from their riskiness.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021

Their musical point of view—belligerent but wounded—felt a little like outlaw country, a genre that had recently formed in opposition to the slick Nashville scene, but their songs were talkier, more cerebral.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019

It’s agreeably silly, and sometimes appealingly slapsticky, compared to the talkier likes of Blockers or Game Night.

From The Verge ● Dec. 28, 2018

This book feels longer and talkier than the first two, and the plot is more convoluted, bouncing from Moscow and Washington to Greece, New York, Khartoum, Macao and Hong Kong.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2018

The opener, with Charlotte Flair winning the title NXT Championship from Rhea Ripley, was another very physical match, albeit the talkiest to that point.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020

The Stephen Sondheim number Ms. McDonald chose, the Baker’s Wife song “Moments in the Woods,” from “Into the Woods,” was one of his talkiest.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2013

Less a civil war Saving Private Ryan than a 19th-century prequel to The West Wing, Spielberg's wide-angle account of the abolition of slavery is his talkiest film, but all the better for it.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013

Even at its talkiest, the U.N. does serve a useful purpose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among her handicaps: a somewhat watered-down characterization, and most of the movie's talkiest passages.

From Time Magazine Archive