I remember "nattering nabobs of negativism," which was a great term.
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I'd wander off and see him nattering away to her on the sofa.
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Like having a steady outside narrative occupies part of my cognition, so my brain isn't nattering away.
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The dinners are private affairs away from the nattering galleries and clicking cameras — no spouses or media.
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So when nattering nabobs of negativity emerged to critique her body, she wouldn't let them get to her.
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I've been nattering on for some time about our new explanatory guide to their use in a modern kitchen.
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Overly familiar with the class routine, my excitement had been replaced with boredom, a nattering emotion that affects us all.
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That may explain why people think women talk more: in the stereotype, it seems they are nattering on with no clear purpose.
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He answered the door to the Embassy in cargo shorts and waved me in, nattering on about some great new hires he'd lined up.
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Eric Tucker's production was no staid costume drama but a hyper-caffeinated romp, with a chorus of nattering gossips and wheeled furniture that rarely stopped swirling.
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For Lucy, the sound of her mother's voice nattering on with town gossip while she dozes in and out leaves her with an overwhelming feeling of comfort.
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I suppose I hoped he'd change his tune once he understood that I had local memories and a politician's knack for filling the air with pleasant nattering.
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And while the officious yenta in residence, the nattering Turnbo (Michael Potts), may seem like an old-womanish gossip, he's the one who's fast to pull a gun.
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In an astoundingly rangy performance, she goes from nattering like Winnie in "Happy Days" (another Beckett icon) to full-on freak-out when she can't recall her past.
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And honestly, the Academy has never wasted time nattering over historical accuracy when a movie shows up trumpeting a three-hour runtime, an "epic" storyline, and excellent outdoor cinematography.
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And when I delayed a club's burlesque night with my 18-page opus, there she was, telling the audience to shut their traps, one nattering hipster at a time.
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The 280-character tweets will be full of needless words as people get lazy, sloppy and Twitter transforms from its original micro-blog format into a bloated beast of endless nattering.
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In retrospect Ocean's finest album isn't Channel Orange, an exceedingly gorgeous yet occasionally nattering piece of music, but Nostalgia, Ultra, the mixtape he dropped in 2011 that first made his name.
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He foamed with contempt for establishment types such as businessmen ("those farts") and university professors ("those assholes"), and unleashed his vice-president, Spiro Agnew, to denounce the "nattering nabobs of negativism".
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Hot gas suffuses the cluster, but the storm blew a crater through it more than a million light-years wide, leaving just a near-vacuum, a nattering haze of ultrahot electrical particles.
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For Vinagre, "sex is a part of life," and he's continually shocked that audiences who can handle brutal, life-like violence turn into nattering schoolmarms at the site of an erect cock.
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Think about it: Packham pissed out of his skull nattering on and on about Chinese egret's while Portillo, his face the color of a good brandy, murmurs "remarkable, my dear boy," over and over.
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"It's one thing for Spiro Agnew to call everyone in the press 'nattering nabobs of negativism,'" he said, referring to the former vice president's famous critique of how journalists covered President Richard M. Nixon.
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"It's one thing for Spiro Agnew to call everyone in the press 'nattering nabobs of negativism,'" he said, referring to the former vice president's famous critique of how journalists covered President Richard M. Nixon.
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Of course, I didn't want to be a nattering nabob of negativism, so I made sure to throw in categories like "Best Line" and "Best Scene" to keep me on the side of the angels.
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Trusting in himself and his ability implicitly, and for the most part ignoring the nattering of outside chatter and just following his own instincts, he is probably the GM who operates most like a former professional athlete.
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Remember Nixon had an even dumber and more inarticulate fool for Vice President, Spiro Agnew, who famously characterized the news media in no uncertain terms: In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.
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Vocally and musically — in the way she exactly enunciates long, nattering verses, in the chiming acoustic guitars and perfectly rounded, ringing riffs, in the clean piano chords and even the darkly spacey keyboards echoing like the wind — Case prizes clarity.
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And starting from scratch, with no constraints from an anxious board or nattering marketplace, has given him the freedom to talk about what truly accounts for success at the biggest tech companies, like those that dominate LinkedIn's Top Companies list in 2017.
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It's perhaps unfortunate that the play, at the McGinn/Cazale Theater as part of Second Stage Uptown's summer season, begins with its artist character, Lil (Anabelle LeMieux), nattering on about her childhood fears, her only prop being, for some unfathomable reason, a cantaloupe.
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In the case of Goldwater and Agnew, Mr. Gold's mission was particularly challenging since both were largely enigmas to the national press corps, and Agnew would hurl barbs ("nattering nabobs of negativism," for one) at the very news media that Mr. Gold was courting.
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Now, none of us likes personal criticism, particularly a president trying to do arguably the toughest job in the world while "the nattering nabobs of negativism," as Vice President Spiro Agnew once put it, are picking at his failures as well as reporting on his triumphs.
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Frank Bruni I'm an awards-show geek who usually spends the morning after the big event nattering about who was unjustly robbed, who was unwisely dressed and whether it's a felony in Hollywood to consume more than 300 calories a meal, because it sure looks that way.
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We have an incoming administration that will clearly challenge the press in a way we have not seen since President Richard Nixon and his Vice President Spiro Agnew went after the "nattering nabobs of negativism" by withholding information from reporters and avoiding as much direct contact as possible.
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When he couldn't push the thing forward vertically, he moved horizontally, crossing lanes of traffic by beating out a nattering pattern on his horn, nosing his way in between vehicles and forcing other drivers to budge in turn, even if the only movement possible was an inch or two.
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They were also too young to have experienced the anti-press sloganeering that Nixon running mate Spiro Agnew practiced (he called reporters "nattering nabobs of negativism"), or the law-and-order rhetoric that was Nixon's dog-whistle signal to Southern whites who had been discomfited by the civil rights movement.
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It attacks "the nattering of the cognoscenti—the media elite, the professional political class and the people largely insulated or directly benefitting from the failures of the last seven years," while also defending Trump's populist appeal and skating over the fact that the Observer and Kushner are very much a part of that elite.
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You can see the desperation on their faces every time, the yearning for control, the pursuit of a kind of extraordinary seriousness that will make everyone bow down and recognize that yes, the world is full of nattering ninnies who don't know what they're talking about, but you are a complete human male, the one we need, a real Joseph Campbell hero-type of motherfucker, the man who did it.
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Gallace dissolves ongoing > nattering about abstraction and representation, achieving the rare, staunch > beauty of the quietly hard-won.
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A much circulated black-and-white photograph of the event was taken by Safire. Safire joined Nixon's campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon's 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and for Spiro Agnew; he is known for having created Agnew's famous term, "nattering nabobs of negativism." Safire prepared a speech called "In Event of Moon Disaster" for President Nixon to deliver on television if the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon.
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He called those opposed to the war the "nattering nabobs of negativism." Starting in the 21st century, social media became a major source of bias, since anyone could post anything without regard to its accuracy. Social media has, on the one hand, allowed all views to be heard, but on the other hand has provided a platform for the most extreme bias. In 2010, President Obama said that he believed the viewpoints expressed by Fox News was "destructive for the long-term growth" of the United States.
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His musical palette tends toward large-scale works, mainly for orchestra or ensemble; he has also composed several smaller works for either solo instrument (In Memoriam: 8/17/99 for piano) or solo instrument and piano (Lines for clarinet and piano). Although several of his works display this sudden movement between slow chord movements and the nattering of percussion and / or instruments, such as Flight Box (2001) or Hammer Music (1990), other pieces use a more consistent texture, such as the energetic F E S T for New Music Ensemble and Orchestra (1998) or the subdued Curve (1998).
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In late 19th century San Francisco, rapid urbanization led to an exclusive enclave of the rich and famous on the west coast who built large mansions in the Nob Hill neighborhood. This included prominent tycoons such as Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University and other members of The Big Four who were known as nabobs, which was shortened to nob, giving the area its eventual name. The term was used by William Safire in a speech written for United States Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1970, which received heavy media coverage. Agnew, increasingly identified with his attacks on critics of the Nixon administration, described these opponents as "nattering nabobs of negativism".
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" Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film three out of four stars, saying "A delectable treat that balances themes of identity and class warfare with Monty Python-style political skewering, quirky humor and dairy jokes." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film two out of four stars, saying "One gets the sense that directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable have their hearts in the action sequences and not in the characters, and that's a problem." Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two out of four stars, saying "The Boxtrolls remains relentlessly busy up through its final credits, and it's clever in a nattering way. But it's virtually charmless.
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He worked with Agnew in the Congressional election campaign of 1970, when Agnew made appearances around the country criticizing incumbent Democratic Senators with epithets such as "nattering nabobs of negativism." In 1980, Gold joined the staff of Republican presidential candidate George H. W. Bush as a speechwriter and senior advisor. He served on Bush's vice-presidential staff in 1981, was a speechwriter and advisor for the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1984, and was an advisor to Bush in his 1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns. In 1989, he was appointed to a delegation sent by President Bush to provide oversight of the first free elections in Romania after the ouster of Nicolae Ceauşescu.
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During the 18th century in particular, it was widely used as a disparaging term for British merchants or administrators who, having made a fortune in India, returned to Britain and aspired to be recognised as having the higher social status that their new wealth would enable them to maintain. Jos Sedley in Thackeray's Vanity Fair is probably the best known example in fiction. From this specific usage it came to be sometimes used for ostentatiously rich businesspeople in general. "Nabob" can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose sense of their own importance, as in the famous alliterative dismissal of the news media as "nattering nabobs of negativism" in a speech that was delivered by Nixon's vice president Spiro Agnew and written by William Safire.
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