They do little to alleviate the essential talkiness of the material.

There was a lot of talk, so much that the whole evening threatened to tip into talkiness.

Curiously enough, the talkiness is what saves the movie from turning into a lecture.

Then, cursing his talkiness, he bolted, stopping at a nearby diner for some breakfast.

However, he criticised the "iffy time travel rules" and "talkiness" that ensured a slower pace.

Directed with zest by Jen Wineman, it could give wacky talkiness a good name.

He poked fun at the "talkiness of the plot", but found the acting to be "decent enough to make the cataclysm sound halfway believable".

"Claire of the Moon," which opens today at the Village East Cinemas, has its own form of talkiness.

Moving beyond the talkiness of her previous mother-daughter novel, "Olivia," Rossner reveals a gritty new style, stripped down to the clean bones of feeling.

But both of them also write a rambling and lucid and often weirdly accurate prose, and the novel, for all its talkiness, is realized as fiction.

Some of these are explored through a talkiness that is, frankly, a snooze, and the ending Mr. Strehler has devised might have been conceived for a pulpit.

Though the play's talkiness, glibness and stubborn resistance to the grand dramatic gesture are readily apparent, they are sometimes countered by Clifford Williams's fluid, imaginative production.

LEAD: As if making a joke about the famous talkiness of his films, Eric Rohmer's latest work begins and ends with silence - or at least the idea of silence.

Lou Lumenick of the New York Post called the film "generic" and wrote that "adults will be less than enchanted by its preachiness, talkiness and Communist Party-line political views".

Ender couldn't begrudge him the talkiness-- he and Valentine were almost the only people who could listen to Miro's slow speech patiently, without giving him a sign that they wanted him to get on with it.

He is clearly drawn to her, and she, in turn, discovers that his "dejected" posture and flustered talkiness, "precisely the qualities that made George unsuitable as a romance hero, made me breathe a little more quickly."

If Bussy D'Ambois (printed 1607) is compared with its sequel, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (printed 1613), the move away from stage action and toward talkiness is readily apparent.

To the Editor: Re "Pipe Down, We're Trying to Watch a Cartoon" [March 19]: As a lifelong animation buff, I couldn't agree more with Charles Solomon about the talkiness of many contemporary animated movies.

Hypers Daniel Wilks criticises the film for having "only vaguely interconnected action scenes punctuated by some rather dull talkiness marred by horrible accents (the heroine is unconvincingly British and the childish sidekick speaks with a mangled Mexican drawl)".

Adapted from his play, Frederick Knott's carefully concocted DIAL FOR MURDER (1954) does very well as a film thriller, with the story's wall-to-wall structure and talkiness offset by good performances and Alfred Hitchcock's legerdemain.