Example sentences of "talk of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is wont to talk of the new vision that Lorca 's poetry gave to him ; ‘ here is my landscape , ’ he exclaimed repeatedly . |
| 2 | Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly were as ready to talk of Ovid as of the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant , and indeed ready to illuminate the one by shafts of light thrown from the other … |
| 3 | To talk of getting the full charge of the Divine Comedy — or more modestly and exactly , the fullest charge the particular reader is capable of getting — while treating Dante 's master as an irrelevance , is nonsense ; … |
| 4 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 5 | To talk of dawn raids in the circumstances is palpable nonsense . |
| 6 | Erich Honecker , the country 's 77-year-old leader , continued only to talk of the need for ‘ the further development of socialism ’ , in his speech in the Palace of the Republic . |
| 7 | Whether from shame or fear of the all-pervasive Mukhabarat security police , people are reluctant to talk of the four civilians in Maan who were killed - they do not use the word ‘ martyred ’ as would Palestinians on the West Bank of the river — during the ‘ sorrowful events ’ as they are known in official parlance . |
| 8 | Opinion and fashion had changed : to talk of the ‘ district general hospital ’ now stamped the speaker as a Rip Van Winkle . |
| 9 | To talk of human history as going through stages implies that there is an unavoidable link-up between technological systems , political systems , economic systems , kinship systems , etc . |
| 10 | Wexford waited for her to talk of love and instead heard her say with a strange sense of shock , ‘ I gave up my job , as I told you , and came back to London to live with him . |
| 11 | Not the time to talk of reunification , says Gerasimov Moscow welcomes collapse of the Wall . |
| 12 | Indeed it is ‘ the left ’ ( if it still makes sense to talk of left and right in Poland ) that is most desperate to present a solid front in support of market economics . |
| 13 | We can claim that the theology of the Cross forces us now to talk of God in very different ways . |
| 14 | It would be too much , given his limitations , to talk of Nikita the Great , but there was uncommon ability in him for which the world could eventually breathe more easily . |
| 15 | As she showed him the barn , they began to talk of the forest . |
| 16 | Long conversations tired her but she loved to talk of the old days and her life as a nanny to a wealthy family . |
| 17 | It adds nothing to our understanding , Skinner argues , to talk of its frame of mind . |
| 18 | It would be unkind to talk of the pollsters making excuses , but they do have explanations . |
| 19 | But to be safe he had promised not to talk of their meetings . |
| 20 | Monetary policy can not be given to an ‘ independent ’ bank because it makes no sense to talk of monetary policy as independent of economic policy . |
| 21 | But Ayer represents what is probably more often the position of the atheist , namely that it simply makes no sense to talk of God . |
| 22 | I have certainly tried to argue that it makes sense to talk of God inviting trust by withholding the sort of evidence which might admit of certainty that He exists . |
| 23 | This chapter leaves crucial questions unasked , such as : What sense does it make to talk of a God who is both ‘ in ’ and ‘ out ’ of the world ? |
| 24 | How does this understanding of God 's transcendence clarify what it means to talk of the divine immanence or presence ? |
| 25 | I offered to talk of a duty superior to that she mentioned , which would oblige her to help distressed innocence , and not permit her to go to the lengths enjoined by lawless tyranny ; but she plainly bid me be silent on that head ; for it was vain to attempt to persuade her to betray her trust . |
| 26 | Nowadays it is not the fashion to talk of authorities in this context . |
| 27 | She was understandably reluctant to talk of all changes , especially in the programming of exhibitions , ‘ it is against my better judgement to put anything to print at this stage . |
| 28 | Lastly to talk of the human ‘ species ’ fails to differentiate between people whose circumstances are very different . |
| 29 | Though there is no real reason not to talk of ‘ the new novel ’ , the term nouveau roman has always been retained , perhaps for a certain alluring foreign frisson . |
| 30 | It is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated . |