How to Use happy talk in a Sentence

happy talk

noun
  • In other words, stick to the happy talk, the light stuff.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The more the Ls accumulate, the less the happy talk works.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2021
  • But they won't be saved by out-of-touch happy talk or shifting blame in ways that don't ring true with voters.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 5 Apr. 2022
  • But one of the risks the Dems have is that more happy talk about the economy risks them looking really out of touch.
    — Maeve Reston, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The roots of the consensus may have been the military believing its own happy talk about the resolve of the Afghan army.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
  • After a lot of happy talk over the past half year, the real Biden presidency has emerged.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
  • But the way this season is playing out looks a lot like one of those Texas teams where all the happy talk made the underachievement look that much worse.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
  • That could force change — or at least some serious talks instead of happy talk and gaslighting.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Democrats are meeting that with more happy talk of unity and normalcy.
    — Charles M. Blow New York Times, Star Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
  • This happy talk of it being completed—just look at the language, the celebration, NASA's planning, and so forth for the launch.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The situation is critical in many places across the United States and all the happy talk and wishful thinking in the world is not going to wash that away.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2020
  • Coaches don't have time for happy talk or sensitive egos.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Or what may be worse, happy talk, which in time erodes credibility.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 18 July 2018
  • More happy talk came from city Finance Director Rob Dubow.
    — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The right was now a font of happy talk about the dawn of a new age of liberty based on free-market economics and American firepower.
    — Jacob Heilbrunn, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2020
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Zeke Miller, The Denver Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Fortune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Fortune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Fortune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.
    — Fortune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Reading between the lines, Biden brought a much tougher message to Europe than what the happy talk about sacred obligations suggests.
    — Noah Millman, The Week, 14 June 2021
  • That the will appears to exist justifies Tuesday’s happy talk.
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
  • Second, Halliburton largely dispensed with the happy talk on its call.
    — Liam Denning | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
  • And beneath all the happy talk, behind the scenes, there are troubling signs that the system California regulators have proposed will not be up to the task.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
  • But one prominent commentator didn't join in the happy talk.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • For Democrats, the happy talk will mostly be about this year being the harbinger of an extremely successful midterm election.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 2017
  • But let's not get distracted by all the post-mortem happy talk from the same leaders who repeated assured us that their secret bid was strong and competitive.
    — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 18 Jan. 2018

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