11.   How should we interpret all this happy talk?

12.   If she only wanted to hear happy talk, that is what she should have ordered.

13.   In a march toward triviality, many stations have reduced their repertory to snippets and light classics, swathed in happy talk whose only redeeming feature is its brevity.

14.   Instead, they resorted to happy talk.

15.   Maybe Boeheim should have pulled the senior forward John Wallace aside for some happy talk.

16.   Nobody makes with happy talk.

17.   Otherwise, the backstage material is mainly the kind of happy talk that affords these young, unknown players a measure of personality.

18.   Surprisingly, I had not been bombarded with lots of happy talk about George Dubya Bush.

19.   That might have been just some happy talk coming from a new Paul Allen employee.

20.   The delegates have each been given written instructions to stick to happy talk when speaking to reporters.