How to Use talky in a Sentence

talky

adjective
  • She was in a talky mood.
  • Kill Bill slows down in its talkier second half.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Who knew the impending apocalypse could be so talky?
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
  • This great anime series has a bit too much blood for the younger set and the tendency to get talky at points.
    — Patrick Orndorff, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2009
  • Which is not to say the series, while talky, gets bogged down in philosophical abstraction.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • All in all, this is a fascinating, if talky, play made all the more watchable by two highly talented actors.
    — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
  • There’s a facile critical tendency to liken a wide range of talky and small-scale dramas to the films of Éric Rohmer.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But a two-hour stage musical also contains a lot of talky-talk scenes and songs about boooring stuff like love and revenge and living your best life.
    — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The more Jacobs lards his talky screenplay with blocks of explanatory prose, the less convincing or clear his story becomes.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
  • Ironically, their strongest film since then is exceedingly talky.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • After 45 minutes of talky intrigue and betrayal, a tiny iceberg is visible in the blackness.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Instead, the film is haunted and strikingly talky, with the young men working together to stay distracted and keep their dignity as they are killed off one by one.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
  • On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.
    — Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
  • The result is a talky biopic with the intensity of an action movie, a series of meetings in offices and bunkers that somehow drives the planet to the brink of apocalypse.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 July 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
  • But Rodrigo, one-time Disney Channel starlet, knows better than to let herself be reduced to that girl who makes talky retro pop-punk.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 12 June 2026
  • Such books, it is assumed, will be talky and analytical, essentially essays thinly disguised as fiction.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • The acting here smooths out the blocky, talky, implausibly ruminative aspects of Laverty’s writing.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • An early scene, a party at the home of an up-for-tenure Yale professor played by Julia Roberts, is filled with that kind of thinky-talky dialogue.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
  • His movies are talky, intimate to the point of claustrophobia, and populated by characters that can be charitably described as prickly.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But this overly talky and stagey film, which takes place mostly in Colt’s hotel room and trailer — and frustratingly off-set — lacks the requisite catharsis and charisma to sufficiently engage.
    — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
  • Pert piano and squiggly synth elements recall the cloying tropical pop that Ed Sheeran played with on his recent albums; her sing-talky delivery resembles him, too.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Most disappointing, Kubrick has positioned his uniformed perspectives in talky situations.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2017
  • Maybe that’s enough to scratch a genre itch until the hourly mayhem kicks in, or maybe the talky parts will turn you into Milhouse waiting for Itchy, Scratchy, and Poochie to get to the fireworks factory.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Severance is a show that is often driven by dialogue, and this dinner scene is quite talky, relying on Burt and a tipsy Fields to reveal a lot of information in a short period of time.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Simon’s script is talky, particularly in the repetitive final scene, but Williams’ production is packed with situational and visual humor to keep the laughs flowing.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • 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.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Those two genres are fused together with an arresting artfulness, woozy and dreamy interludes mixing with the talky technical stuff to create a film that is broadly enlightening and piercingly intimate.
    — Joey Nolfi, PEOPLE.com, 21 May 2017
  • But Ritch maintains enough tension via filmmaking craft, and his cast via intensity of psychological dynamics, that this very talky, nearly action-free drama never grows ponderous.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023

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