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- Too much television is brain-rotting drivel.
- Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. (source)
- Religion was just a stick to beat the soldiers with, and anyone who declared otherwise was full of pious drivel.† (source)
- Your drivel about honor and homeland makes me sick!† (source)
- My writing's all mixed up, I'm jumping from one thing to another, and sometimes I seriously doubt whether anyone will ever be interested in this drivel.† (source)
- It was mostly drivel, but I did talk with a man who knew where the oil was taken.† (source)
- I was about to retreat to my shack, if only to get away from his drivel, when I heard Nila screaming my name from inside the main house.† (source)
- What is this drivel I'm coming out with?† (source)
- Circles, chevrons, arrows, birds, mucho mystical drivel, and I was trying to absorb it all.† (source)
- "Dear Valentine"—Miss Williams began reading the badly rhymed childish drivel.† (source)
- "Drivel!" retorted Rasmussen, shaking his head.† (source)
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- Had he known what drivel filled his head, he would have shouted.† (source)
- After a while he took out his mobile and called Tony Scala, a freelance journalist who made a living writing drivel for men's magazines.† (source)
- Does this mean all that drivel about the Augurs being possessed by spirits of the dead is true?† (source)
- "Drivel," the gunslinger said shortly.† (source)
- "They're teaching a lot of drivel nowadays," he answered, "but there are a few courses I like."† (source)
- You don't really believe all that drivel, do you?† (source)
- I have an extremely low tolerance for drivel.† (source)
- He'd heard the man talked a lot of drivel before getting the knife in, but he'd never heard anything like this before.† (source)
- I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or manufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. (source)
- We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. (source)
- He feels a little paltry for having pawned Morgana's drivel off on the Crakers as cosmogony.† (source)
- Drivel-monger was the worst he would say about Elwood.† (source)
- That's when normal rules no longer apply, and any drivel can be printed.† (source)
- Enough with this drivel—we are already late.† (source)
- Does he truly believe this drivel, or is it an ignorantia affectata?† (source)
- Only long enough to digest that harmless drivel of a sermon we endured this morning.† (source)
- They say there is no fool like an old fool, but I say there is no fool like a young one; and I am astonished that anyone with a medical degree would allow himself to be imposed upon by such a blatant piece of charlatanism and preposterous tomfoolery as a "Neuro-hypnotic trance," which is second in imbecility only to Spiritism, Universal Suffrage, and similar drivel.† (source)
- He lacked the energy to work the crowd, he was fresh out of innocuous drivel; he loitered on the edges gnawing on a burned soydog and silently ripping apart everyone within eyesight.† (source)
- Anything else is sentimental drivel.† (source)
- At the first sign of trouble, he calls me into his office and asks me-casually, in the midst of the most irrelevant drivel-what Miss Taggart used to do in such an emergency.† (source)
- He talks a lot of drivel.† (source)
- What drivel is that?† (source)
- Mrs. Brown, unbelievably, was more inefficient than I was in compiling the drivel and trivia demanded by the higher administrators.† (source)
- That's drivel," Leamas declared.† (source)
- Let her listen to that fool's drivel about blindness and vinegar all her life.† (source)
- Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.† (source)
- "In the first place, it is blasphemous and drivel," she said.† (source)
- But the drivel is never accidental, Dominique.† (source)
- He had had a beautiful and eager young wife and another man had taken her away from him and had fathered his child, and all he had done was to walk away, leaving her in possession of everything he owned, and crawl into a hole in the slums and lie there like a wounded animal and let his intellect bleed away into pious drivel and his strength bleed away into weakness.† (source)
- Shut up that drivel.† (source)
- "Mother," he said harshly, "that part of it is pure drivel—about my having a chance with Dominique.† (source)
- Oh, just a lot of drivel.† (source)
- How droll the stains one sees on fine-laced doublets, From gall of envy, or the poltroon's drivel!† (source)
- Charles: if you must drivel, drivel like a grown-up man and not like a schoolboy.† (source)
- And then he added, "It seems to me you're talking drivel, that you're a little muddleheaded.† (source)
- LOMAX [out of countenance] Well, drivel is drivel, don't you know, whatever a man's age.† (source)
- Did anyone ever hear such drivel?† (source)
- What I hate is this idiotic drivel about 'I am God—I am man—I ride the winds—I look through the smoke—I am the life sense.'† (source)
- 'Don't drivel,' said Peter.† (source)
- In good society in England, Charles, men drivel at all ages by repeating silly formulas with an air of wisdom.† (source)
- She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus.† (source)
- Arrah, bloody end to the paw he'd paw and Alf trying to keep him from tumbling off the bloody stool atop of the bloody old dog and he talking all kinds of drivel about training by kindness and thoroughbred dog and intelligent dog: give you the bloody pip.† (source)
- With six eyes he was weeping, and over three chins trickled the tears and bloody drivel.† (source)
- Adieu, goodman drivel.† (source)
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