This was a "need" draft, with the Jets forgoing the usual blather about taking the best athlete available.

On large canvases, this Texas painter cleverly simulates the look of old department store sale posters but substitutes ambiguous, racially charged images and texts for the usual blather.

After that Beane confined himself to the usual blather about personal reasons.

Bloom's focus on genius is not just commercial opportunism, the usual blather about the moral import of cultural literacy or part of the national obsession with success, though critics will find elements of all three if they go looking for them.

Such campaign promises are commonplace from candidates of the party out of power, but Reagan's differed qualitatively from the usual blather.

"They just keep saying he's resting comfortably and doing as well as can be expected and all the usual blather."

Just the usual blather and a revamped Stability Pact (Fiskalunion).

- people started cranking out the usual blather about what an icon she was.

The usual blather about "where are the W.M.D.s?"

The issues are complex, but conference participants might cut through the usual blather if they first read a lucid study, released last week, by an expert panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a nonpartisan research group.