light talk

The light talk was punctuated by a few delicately probing questions and long, revelatory answers.

A senior White House official, who spoke anonymously to describe private conversations, said that conversations with Republicans were kept light — talk of sports took the place of more contentious topics including, say, looming oversight investigations.

The sailors, all from the Philippines, are a little tired-looking and taciturn, but they crowd around Chapman and DeLeon for light talk in English and Tagalog.

It was mostly fun, light talk radio fare, but it started to get chippy over the question of “Who was the last team to win it all?”

Another student who also stayed late that day testified that Ritzer tried to engage Chism, a student who had recently moved to Massachusetts, in light talk about how his new community compared with his old town of Clarksville, Tennessee.