11.   Much of the improvement has to do with idle chatter in the neighborhood.

12.   On the sheepshearing platform, there is no idle chatter.

13.   The ballet resembles idle chatter.

14.   The idle chatter comes to a temporary halt with the fantastic entrance of Lina, a deus ex machina who represents for Shaw the expanding boundaries of human possibility.

15.   There were unwritten rules, she said, not to bother the president with idle chatter or autograph requests.

16.   They would not like the forums that are scheduled in October, nor the letters in the newspaper nor even the idle chatter in the places people gather.

17.   When the reporter called to ask him for his reaction to a certain development, he should have known the reporter was not making idle chatter.

18.   While that is usually idle chatter for fans, prognosticating is actually a key concern for the companies that deal in t-shirts, hats and other football paraphenalia.

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