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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
  — Washington Post, 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
• Don’t believe the happy talk that this was a healthy display of deliberative democracy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2023
• The tone was a sharp contrast with President Trump, who was frequently criticized for offering happy talk about the pandemic.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 29 Dec. 2020
• But the generals’ chorus of happy talk defied a year-long stream of intelligence assessments that the insurgency had gained strength.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• The White House needs to reassure Americans not with happy talk but with daily medical briefings that are candid and complete.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• But Albrecht said the strategy goes beyond corporate happy talk.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• There’s more than happy talk to such exercises, Dr. Gomez says, especially when the fun stuff like the cheers is accompanied by activities that allow for putting the slogans in practice.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2017
• But the numbers are the numbers, and, notwithstanding Trump’s relentless happy talk, the coronavirus epidemic has, as of this week, already produced some fifty thousand American dead.
  — Susan Glasser, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2020
• In that now-infamous press conference, Biden unloosed a farrago of wishful thinking, happy talk, half-truths, and blatant deceptions.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
• Major unions see a plot to strip away labor protections with happy talk of government support that will never materialize.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• Several paragraphs below the happy talk, though, the company unveiled a disappointing outlook for the second quarter, giving earnings guidance of 38 to 43 cents per share.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018

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