happy talk

In all your life, you never heard such a happy talk show.

Do not believe any of the Bush team's happy talk.

But all the happy talk about a new common ground leaves a bitter taste among those who are no longer part of the effort.

"There was all that happy talk about democratization and human rights," the official said.

Now cost controls and happy talk were ruining what they had built.

His article, while filled with statistics and facts, remains an exercise in happy talk.

Two leading Democrats offer their own versions of supply-side happy talk.

The place would have echoed with jangling music and loud, happy talk.

Free advice: until you have answers to the following six questions, don't believe any happy talk coming from the Bush team on Iraq.

Good dean fun, and after that I stuck to spacemail for my happy talk.

"The President is just giving them happy talk, but at some point you have to face reality," said a Democratic strategist.

"But if it all were just happy talk, it would have evaporated by now."

Encouraged by Joe, Con's happy talk of their future home continued.

There was no happy talk or singing and no passing laughter.

That's happy talk for "the new features are going to cost you from now on.")

"Happy talk" may also refer to a format of news which encourages such commentary.

Television news is serious and important; there is no banter or happy talk.

"It's been like this all afternoon," Vitrano said as they looked at the crowd and listened to the happy talk.

We must pray that its happy talk becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.

"But they've had people, myself among them, beating them up for happy talk and not making an argument" about the nature of the struggle.

All they have provided is a lot of happy talk about upbeat locker rooms and promising playing styles.

"Folks like George Bush are given all the happy talk and all the right words," he said.

"These vague regulations will hurt rather than help Americans with their overtime pay, while the administration's public posture is all smiles and happy talk."

But the stirrings of rebellion are evident despite the happy talk from some theater owners.

The delivery is stilted, without happy talk or humour.