You and I don't need to make small-talk, Olivia.
They sat making small-talk for a few minutes until she asked, "May I look at your paintings?
You don't think I would have called you to make small-talk, do you?
One, the human being he'd been playing for so long, the man making small-talk with the driver; the other the being who moved behind that pretence.
At this moment the hardest thing of all for her would have been to make small-talk.
He made small-talk in a frigid, mechanical fashion, trying to assume an air of friendly interest.
It would make great small-talk when they met long-lost rellies.
Dame Maugelin dressed herself no less hastily, meanwhile making jovial small-talk.
Initially they make respectful small-talk about him, but their comments grow increasingly resentful as it becomes apparent he will not show up.