1.   But the party chatter was low, there had been tears and there could be little joy.

2.   Party chatter goes cold.

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

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

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