1.   As the cocktail chatter proceeded, the band stayed with background music, beginning with two Princeton songs.

2.   Rarely do dreary economic abstractions become fodder for mainstream media accounts or occasional cocktail party chatter as the concept of moral hazard has.

3.   Regardless, the uncertainty surrounding Weisel and the investment bank should make for inspired cocktail chatter.

4.   The party may have been a celebration for an incoming president, but the outgoing one hijacked the cocktail chatter.

5.   There was a lot of cocktail chatter.

6.   That just makes it all the more frustrating because what we get instead is more in the realm of idle cocktail chatter.

7.   The permits and their fluctuating prices, which are reported by TV news and fuel cocktail party chatter, are just the start of the system.

8.   The twin movies are more the result of a small network of cocktail party chatter than plagiarism.