How To Use Blather In A Sentence
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Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Now, I can't help but wonder if these people have a quick look-see, utter ‘boring’ and move on, or whether they're actually reading anything I bother to blather on about in here.
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And then there are the funny ones such as ning nong, doofus, blatherskite.
Etymology – the origins of words « Write Anything
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He was terrible by the way, blathering on about something.
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On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw.
In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
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The old men blather on and on.
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He's blathering, but in a constructive way: the big decisions have been right.
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If you're interested in how I solved the writing problem I mentioned several days ago, look (behind the cut where lies lengthy writing neep in which I blather on about my work in order to avoid other pressing issues)
When Good Scenes Go Bad, Redux
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In doing so, Blatherwick has made you aware of the strange beauty and vulgarity of otherwise unnoticeable, routine human impulses.
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She just let the woman blather on for a few minutes, nodding or smiling when it seemed appropriate to do so.
GALILEE
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A character can be a Mary-Sue and have the writer blathering on and on (and on, and on) about how unbeautiful she is.
Who Mary Sue Isn’t at SF Novelists
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There he is blathering away in old concert footage, as narrator Johnny Depp explains that Mr. Morrison picked out all his own stage clothes, "from the concho belts to the leather pants seemingly designed to accentuate his crotch.
Does He Still Light Your Fire?
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I blathered on yesterday with a rant on the subject, but there are countless others with something to say, and many with far more eloquence.
Wag the Blog #9: BYOB (Burn Your Own Book)
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That dried-up worthless twit once again obscures the real point with blather.
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When will he stop blathering about the morality of others and look to his own sorry affairs?
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People who talk a lot and say little are called blatherskites.
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He makes up figures, he makes up stories, and he is full of blatherskite.
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The more she blathered on about her problems, the more he knew it was time to take her off his list.
Fatal Error
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I think that between the heat and her blather, I might well have been physically sick if I'd had to attend.
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You're not renowned for being a blatherer.
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(Although perhaps I shouldn't trivialize it quite so much by calling it "blather"; it's precisely this NYT-style blather that helped get us in the current "complicated" mess in Iraq.)
Narrative Strategies
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I will have to continue to ride sedately until I am clear of the drunks, bus-rushers and blind Blackberry blatherers.
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Real thinking should prevail, not blather.
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It's good to see another famous political blatherer actually blathering something sensible.
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Disillusioned with events in the publishing world, he decided to turn his back on the mainstream bookish blatherskites and focus on independent literary fiction and culture.
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Steven L. Auslander, of Tucson, wrote, If someone consulting the dictionary is doing so in order to add words to a spoken diatribe, he or she may be described as a hunter-blatherer.
Word Fugitives
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He was thankful for the darkness of the cinema enveloping them so that he would no longer need to blather.
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It certainly will stop all that santctimonius, self-righteous, holier than thou blather from the neo-con "christians"!
Sanford ally: Governor remains 'defiant'
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Why not drop in daily for your regular dose of nonsensical blather, rambling introspection and stolen links?
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Me and my classmates blathered on about that movie for weeks after we saw it.
Meme, Myself, & I: Movies
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I know it's completely uncool to blather on about one's partner.
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One of the things that I find annoying about the divide between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ art is the blather of the traditionalists.
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Gop blathered, "Maybe next time she gets an invite she might want to check into it a bit more to be sure it is not a mistake
Topless club owner names dog shelter after Gingrich
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But he is an engaging arguer, too, sometimes mangling his syntax yet often making well-reasoned points behind the provocative blather.
Times, Sunday Times
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She just let the woman blather on for a few minutes, nodding or smiling when it seemed appropriate to do so.
GALILEE
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On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw.
In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
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There is no surprise like a complete surprise," Margarethe is saying, in something of a blather.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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In contrast, you are a blatherskite living on other human beings and giving them nothing as empty words in return, i.e. the lifestyle of a social parasite.
Social progress is our Duty
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He gave a long and well-intentioned but muddleheaded and boring speech about the whole concept he keeps blathering on about.
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I really don't give a toss if CNN prints this or not; the moderation of these comments isn't nearly as strict as some of you seem to think it is anyway – they print what best advances the conversation at hand, even if it is unfounded blather from the masses, so just take off your tinfoil hats and get on with your lives, please.
Obama, Medvedev reach 'substantial' deal on Afghanistan
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Whatever they've done has also fixed the problem I blathered about last week.
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This essay blathers on about philosophy and the sense of life but there's nothing especially offensive there.
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Talk is what it is, the old lords love to talk, to blather on and on.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The old man Spector handled himself well with all these nuts, but the majority of his time was wasted as an avenue for a platform to these Limbaugh/Paliin ditto heads (not to) ask pertinent questions, but blather about misapprehensions.
Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting
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Will the Pirate-party actuall show substantive improvement (will people actually bother to take a stand politically, or is the growth in membership just blathering?)
Us versus Them
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It takes a fairly intelligent person that has a lot of random factual tidbits in their head to be an effective blatherer, and DLR is that person.
David Lee Roth: Amtrak FM « BuzzMachine
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Many of the books we see these days perched perfectly in high street seasonal window displays are written by static, worn-out, curmudgeonly blatherskites.
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There's no way of knowing if they're "tax resisters" who challenge the legality of the income tax or just "forgetful," like the local politician who blathers endlessly on the need to fund his pet projects while neglecting to pay his own taxes.
IRS Bonus: Two Extra Days
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Hey, if Ronald Reagan can open his presidential campaign in blathering about states’ rights in – of all places – Philadelphia, Mississippi, then this century’s heirs of Lester Maddox can grow a pair.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Colorado Attorney General Explains the Obamacare Lawsuit
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Finally, after hearing all the nonsense blathered at CPAC I would guess Newt gets bonus points for mentioning the Social Democrats because lord knows that group of trolls he preaches to is nothing if not anti-social.
Think Progress » In Effort To Smear The President, Gingrich Suggests Obama Would Have Allied With Anti-Nazi Party
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No self-respecting activist desires to have his cause championed by any such horde of loud-mouthed, blatant blatherskites.
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There is no surprise like a complete surprise," Margarethe is saying, in something of a blather.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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You are almost certainly wondering what the heck I'm blathering on about this time.
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Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Just seemed like your typical long winded blather, which is usual for you.
Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 5, 2006
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Finally, several years later, to complete the circle of poisoned feelings, Mark Twain broke with Edward House: “Reid had labeled him correctly; he was a blatherskite.”
Mark Twain
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[T] he doctrinal battle ... [in Kaur] really is rooted in empty, incoherent blather
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
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While these changes seem like legalese blather, they actually represent a significant change in policy.
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The blather from both sides obscures the real, but largely hidden, agenda behind the tax cuts.
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Talk is what it is, the old lords love to talk, to blather on and on.
THE BROKEN GOD
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blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are
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They are to elect honest men, with whom one can do business -- instead of the peasant saloon keepers and blatherskite labor leaders whom they choose at present.
Samuel the Seeker
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Hatetalk radio hellfire rightwinger bigot-blather, is brain toxic and disturbing the peace, incitement of public disorder, and exactly the style of Hitler's invocation of naziism.
OpEdNEws Demands Civility Among Disagreeing Progressives
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This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novi Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe:
Gravity's Rainbow
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One of the organisers, who I knew quite well for a couple of years there, I was an eternal blatherer on the e-group established to workshop ideas for panels, approached our table and asked if he could borrow my festival program to loan to the chair of the panel.
Archive 2005-11-01
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We have ten year olds able to bring forth a coherent idea these days as opposed to the constant blather from the GOP victor
GOP seeks to counter ABC programming
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It's a thundering lie, you miserable old blatherskite!
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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And then again, we all -- even those of us who still use and like the term "spirituality" -- are embarrassed by and have disdain for those who bandy about terms such as "spirituality" as a conveniently fashionable and corrupt excuse for sensory overload or anything else they can't articulate: as in a coked-up celebrity who blathered on about her amazing spiritual experience while meditating to the full moon.
Loren-Paul Caplin: Religious vs. Spiritual: Semantics Or Neurotics?
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I'm on the extroverted side overall and I do blather on.
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I've blathered about this before, but it still drives me crackers on a regular basis.
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Because Bill Barol and his beloved Blather Blog has returned after a months-long hiatus, including a few weeks there when he was obviously just sort of phoning it in, not that we don't all do that on occasion, of course.
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[T] he doctrinal battle ... [in Kaur] really is rooted in empty, incoherent blather that can never be a satisfying basis for a doctrine.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
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Being away from all the faff and blather will probably be quite soothing
Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
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I can't post about Novi Pazar without quoting one of my favorite bits from Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novi Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe:
Languagehat.com: "BOSNIAN" IN NOVI PAZAR.
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Blatheration!" exclaimed my chum, smacking the butt of his rifle on the deck and making the petty officer who was on the other side of the hatchway jump round in a jiffy, looking marline-spikes in our direction.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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But those weasel phrases get tiresome after a while, and people do tend to gloss over them; and, hey, I'm always interested in finding more gnarly ideas to take apart and play with; so I thought that even if I am going to blather away with my own jazz riffs on what I understand Todorov or Clute to be saying -- to grab these basic themes wherever I find them, see if I can play them back by ear, and if they sound right run with that, rephrasing them and putting them through the conversions, inversions and reversions of my own twisty, turny logic -- well, more grist for the mill is always fun.
Freeform Critique
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The article itself is the usual nonsensical blather about creating housing projects along ideological lines.
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You heard it on sports radio and television pregame shows, amidst the endless barking and blather of those lively roundtable segments.
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Now, I've no specific objection to one's needy compulsion to share mundane personal blather but, for myself, I find it pointless and distracting.
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You didn't spend an obscene amount on the catering just to have it grow cold as one of your guests blathers on.
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There is no surprise like a complete surprise," Margarethe is saying, in something of a blather.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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In an age in which billions would starve if not for the use of artificial fertilizers in agriculture, they blather on about small-scale organic farming.
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Most of it is uninspired blather - and usually wrong.
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The way that we're living now is good - we're not driven by a desire to get a raise or climb up the ladder because we're pretty much at the top of what we're doing already, he says, and as one-quarter of the most blathered and blogged about band in Britain, he's got a point.
Wu Lyf: better the devil you don't know
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This kind of blathering in the media - like the "bogus refugees" comment - is not Harper-esque at all.
Jason kenney should resign because...
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Given the blather SFO dispenses about ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ solutions to the stodginess of opera, how disappointing is it when an apotheosis, written into the music, is funked by the production team?
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He was allowed to blather on about not getting 'overspin' with his putter, whatever that is.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then they slunk back to their compound, turned on the TV, and goggled as Bush blathered on about all the wonderful progress so far.
The Invasion Of Iraq
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Blatherskite O'Loodheramawn, a barrel-chested, white-toothed athlete from Mullingar, welcomed the new loosening of restrictions.
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In the current New Republic, there's a passel of blather under the byline Amitai Etzioni (a name achingly familiar to all connoisseurs of crypto-academic bien-pensant bullbleep) that sets forth a plan by which America will transform itself into a nation of savers.
Panic in Detroit
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If you were to tell me that, someday, human beings with access to entertainment technologies will narcotize themselves on a steady drip of celebrity blather, I would tell you that you are describing March 2011.
A drug called Charlie Sheen
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There will also be the usual blather about healing wounds and moving on, but such false consolation will ring especially hollow this time around.
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Really, David, you ought to be ashamed to repeat such blather.
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Despite all of the blather about "doing it for my children," he strikes me as someone who never stopped to figure out what he wanted to do if he was elected -- putting aside the usual reasons of ego and self-flattery, just why he wants to be president.
Bob Wright and Jonah Goldberg on the memes about Obama's rhetoric.
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In an age in which billions would starve if not for the use of artificial fertilizers in capital-intensive agriculture, the left blathers on about small-scale organic farming.
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I haven't forgotten that this is usually a feather-light interlude of domestic diversions and pop-cult blather - but these are interesting times, and it's my web page.
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What with all the blather about litmus tests, I just hope that the President will not nominate another fool who thinks that a lynching is an event that its victim walks awayfrom.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Stevens to Retire
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I love their blathering about "unyielding" Republicans when they can't even get this through their own overwhelming majority.
Kennedy 'expected more of us' on health care, Dodd says
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Anyway, one of his contestants came on the air and blathered away.
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I don’t recall the blathering blondes and brutal brunettes of FoxNews giving that story a whole lot of air time.
Think Progress » Right Wing Rallies Around Trent Lott’s Segregationist Remarks To Attack Harry Reid
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Waiting for the usual blathering from the Obamites.
Clinton backer Feinstein says it's time to end
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I think the word you are looking for is blatherskite.
Think Progress » Highlights From Tony Snow’s First Press Gaggle
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It's clear that for all his blather, he thought that he was taking a most un-courageous stand.
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That isn't going to stop the blogger from blathering on about it.
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“The rest of them are usually so blathered by the time they get down to it, they never even notice.”
The Priest
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Brian Tannebaum has been called a blathering idiot by Niki Black is distraught over all this criticism and snarkiness.
Simple Justice
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* Getting back for a moment to the increasing visitorship of the Whatever, I do want to note that I very strongly suspect that, in addition to whatever I may blatherate about here, another very strong component to growing the visitorship is the comment threads, which are sometimes oh, okay, often more interesting than the entries to which they are attached.
Some Whatevery « Whatever
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Come on, let's hear some more of your childish blather.
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She just let the woman blather on for a few minutes, nodding or smiling when it seemed appropriate to do so.
GALILEE
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This is the kind of show that has you blathering like a wide-eyed teenage keener for weeks afterwards.
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Count on some right-wing Bush blatherer to shrug and say that it was done in the name of fighting terrorism, and sometimes you have to bend the rules to keep us safe.
No Fourth Amendment for You
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There is a brief production featurette, which is mostly self-congratulatory blather.
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She actually did call glassy-eyed Governor Bill Owen of Colorado out on his RNC mandated stream of consiousness blather about "Aldrich Ames - Brooklyn bridge - Jamie Gorelick - known terrorists - protecting America - 9/11 - Clintoncarterdemocrats.
Hullabaloo
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We have become so accustomed to speechifying and blathering that we hardly notice anymore.
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I thought you ran a magazine that worked to put a stop to the kind of bilgewater this high priestess of blather spews out.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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With morons like Palin blathering on about "Death Panels" the truth needs to be told.
White House launches health care 'reality check' Web site
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Democrats like to blather interminably about democracy, which presumably represents their ideal.
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Talk is what it is, the old lords love to talk, to blather on and on.
THE BROKEN GOD
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So I'm not inclined to edit tonight's blather for clarity.
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And then there are the funny ones such as ning nong, doofus, blatherskite.
Etymology – the origins of words « Write Anything
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This kind of blather, meaningless but essentially harmless, suggests that he might be perfectly suited to make the leap from show business to politics.
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Next week, the place I work has its corporate performance assessment which I've blathered about plenty of times before now.
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I am not one for sentimental blather.
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I can forgive the dyslexia and the inability to formulate a comprehensible sentence ... but it seems that Neil is simply exemplifying the kind of blathering cluelessness I referred to earlier: Missiles a threat to Russia!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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If Rush Limbaugh, this blatherer ofcontention andvitriolwere merely referringto Jesse MacBeth, why thendidhe use the word soldiers instead of soldier?
Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq
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Incompetence, they need to go, it’s the governments fault, the the State of Louisiana’s fault, the mayor of New Orleans didn’t do his job, they were warned and on and on with the blather is all you hear.
Think Progress » CNN filed a lawsuit against federal agencies
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Really all you're trying to do is flense the positive and negative blather of the ego, the bullshit that's about you rather than the writing.
Genius in a Bottle
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Just when we think we can't possibly bear any more, we're forced to endure another round of empty blather about how committed people are to improving this city.
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I am seriously going to try this recipe as soon as I can. ok, enough blathering, insert as much * food adoration, picture drooling from a faithful reader* as you want here.
Barbecue shrimp by Ralph Brennan | Homesick Texan
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Fed up with annoying townies blathering on about the countryside?
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Perot, whose preferred rhetorical mode is the murky expostulation, is what used to be called a blatherskite.
The Veep And The Blatherskite
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Partisan blathering is poisonous, it closes the ears of anyone who doesn’t already agree with that side.
Some other things I’ve been thinking about « Dyepot, Teapot
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I'm sorry I do not yet have a video of this part of the show, for you to share with your children, as Landrieu blathers on and on platitudinously, about how carefully she constructed a brilliantly non-controversial position on the matter, by embracing all points of view and synthesizing it into a marm, that could not be removed from Plaquemines Parish if it washed on shore there.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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Candidates were referred to as blatherskites, big-nothings, stuffed shirts, jellyfish, etc.
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That part of the great state of Iowa which has elected Steve "dumber than a stump" King to the House of Representatives will no doubt wet themselves to see the Sarah "the nutjob" Palin blather on despite fact that the truth seldom passes her lips.
Palin heading to Iowa
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But she has been playing for time, blathering away in an effort to avoid going 70m up into the treetops.
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When the Forty heard this, they all rose and cried out, saying, What manner of blather is this, O harlot?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The blather wears thin, as do the endless romantic intrigues.
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No doubt the manufacturer will have some plausible scientific blather about aerodynamics, moisture contraflow and debag alarm reduction to explain why this should be, so we can dismiss the notion the Aussies are making a deliciously cheeky wink to disco nights at the Embassy Club circa 1978.
Short shorts put Australians in a tight spot at the Rugby World Cup | Harry Pearson
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Rosenbaum accuses me of “living the good life” as a consultant, professor, blogger, blatherer.
There, there, Ron « BuzzMachine
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I was blathering, and to be honest, I was fooling myself.
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The authors of Passionate Uncertainty rarely pass up an opportunity to use ten words when two would suffice, polysyllabic words when simple ones would do, and jargon-filled blather when clarity is called for.
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Mon. 7/19/10 5: 58am 27 LCD bears hit by remotecontrol cars in 2009 good morning, you-all ny! here is the remainder of a city-ditcher's blathering: warbly lake of-cagean-glass silence-breaking reflection inhale-a-bug, 5 calories d0g's lake_ g0d goggle'd
WFMU's recent playlists
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Much of our body politic is tainted with 24-hour, downloadable vitriol and indiscriminate blathering that goes beyond the pale and mires everyone involved in sludge.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: We Are All Arizona -- Now More Than Ever Before
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It certainly will stop all that sanctimonious, self-righteous, holier-than-thou blather from the neo-con "christian" right-wing bible thumpers!
Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'
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It has allowed Mrs. Palin to dismiss any criticism of her—no matter how straightforward—as yet more hostility from opponents, or as hoity-toity blather from inside-the-Beltway mopes.
The Problems With Palin
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Marty explained his strategy for telling everyone he had the idol, which sounded even dopier spoken aloud, and Jeff and Brenda both went right to the genuine I'm bragging essence under the I'm showing you how honest and trustworthy I am crap Marty was blathering.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
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According to the comment a couple of posts below, I have to stop blathering about trains now.
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To listen to them blather, that is exactly what happened.
LaRouche's Latest
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• How have I blathered on all this time without calling attention to Derik Badman's great volume by volume analysis of Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix series?
Everyone’s A Critic: A roundup of comic-related reviews and thinkpieces | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Stand your ground againt their hate filled, fear mongering, party first, blathering. nothingbettertodo
Poll of Polls: Obama more popular than his policies
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Now it fiddles, diddles and blathers in the face of acknowledged White House crime.
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Have you noticed those two blatherskites are creeping ever nearer to usurp you as champion posters?
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Anybody who can abide the blatherers on channel 9 deserves a nomination for Australian of the Year.
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That crowd was in power for so long that it became reflexive to repeat and comment upon the emissions of its designated blatherer of the day.
Matthew Yglesias » Policy Solipsism: Broadband Policy Edition
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And now, without any further blathering, I shall begin.
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Stop blathering about how much it's bothering you.
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Your editorial criticizing the recess appointment of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was the usual corporate blather.
Squarestate - Front Page
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Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Maybe the channel is having a hard time recruiting talking heads or something but I'm hearing an awful lot of this kind of bizarre blather lately.
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This from the man who blathers on about not giving away our sovereignty to foreigners on human rights!
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Why is it that the self-aggrandizements of Cicero, the lecheries and whining of Ovid and the blatherings of that debauched old goose Seneca made it onto the Net before the works that give us solid technical information about what Rome was really good at, viz. the construction of her great buildings and works of engineering?
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Even Fables has its chucklesome moments, although they are in the context of a load of godawful blather.
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At his team's training camp, he was blathering on about the year he had in Mexico almost a decade back.
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The Tyler Telegram humbly apologizes for having called that wide-lipped blatherskite, T. DeWitt Talmadge, "a religious faker.
The Iconoclast
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The impeachment blathering is just that, blathering.
Time to impeach?
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Ironically, given all the contemporary blather about ethics, it's much easier for today's ethically challenged reporter to thrive.
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I know I blathered about my travel troubles, remember us laughing about coin-operated internet, but I have to confess I was probably a bit ... distracted, watching the rest of the audience file in.
Archive 2010-06-01
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What with all the blather about litmus tests, I just hope that the President will not nominate another fool who thinks that a lynching is an event that its victim walks awayfrom.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Stevens to Retire
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Is that just blather, or is it a reasonable comment?
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What use is a pretty Miss Maitliss if she can only blather on about lazy mummy hackette crap.
BBC Bans Emily Maitlis Spectator Column
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New Republic there's a passel of blather under the byline Amitai Etzioni (a name achingly familiar to all connoisseurs of crypto-academic bien-pensant bullbleep) which sets forth a plan by which America will transform itself into a nation of savers.
Home | The New York Observer
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He saw academics generally as "liberal blatherers."
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Now, I've a great deal of respect for him, but clearly this is blather of the first order.
