1.   And so it acquired its contemporary, pejorative connotation of idle chatter.

2.   Believe me, this is not idle chatter.

3.   Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.

4.   ...idle chatter.

5.   But idle chatter about financial emergency should not be allowed to camouflage naked politics.

6.   David Kaczynski and his mother looked away from most people Monday, discouraging idle chatter or attempts at interviews.

7.   Fans in the reserved seats calmly wait, making idle chatter, laughing.

8.   For some people, it is not idle chatter.

9.   I kept siphoning and nodding, still thinking we were just whiling away the afternoon with some idle chatter.

10.   It was not idle chatter, either.