as in talkative
fond of talking or conversation
a talky coworker who will corner you at your desk for hours with stories about his vacation
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And Bond seems to be what Ritchie is going for with this overly convoluted, barely comprehensible spy thriller that fails to generate any excitement in its action scenes and becomes too talky by far.
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023
The script is talky but smooth, delivered at a hang-out pace and, per its crime genre nature, always more psychologically revealing than at first appears.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2022
This is a very talky show—the actors’ bodies are mostly static, and the dance is in the parrying of their ideas.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
Audiences eager to be enchanted by adult fairy tales might find something in the talky reflections on love and desire, on isolation and connection, the latter themes amplified by our recent memories of pandemic confinement.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023
The script is talky but smooth, delivered at a hang-out pace and, per its crime genre nature, always more psychologically revealing than at first appears.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2022
This is a very talky show—the actors’ bodies are mostly static, and the dance is in the parrying of their ideas.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
Audiences eager to be enchanted by adult fairy tales might find something in the talky reflections on love and desire, on isolation and connection, the latter themes amplified by our recent memories of pandemic confinement.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
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“Talky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talky. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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