And I had somebody behind me who was mumbling terribly. Mumbling. Mumbling. Wha.
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Is mumbling — what some people refer to as mumbling, at least — a viable form of rapping?
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Every once in awhile you'd hear some groaning and mumbling.
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Ugly fucking rotten beings, mumbling at me and losing language.
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You must next learn the fine art of Misfits Mumbling.
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He lies alone, staring at the ceiling, grunting and mumbling.
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J. R. felt irritatingly underplayed, with a rushed mumbling delivery.
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"But to a nonfamily member, it just sounds like mumbling."
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At a certain point you just started mumbling the words.
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I started making the beat, started off with the piano, added the snap in there, and Swaye was sitting there: '[Mumbling] and I ride with my glock, [mumbling] and I ride with my glock.
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She bashfully brushed it off and laughed, mumbling something in Cantonese.
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Discolored water came out of his mouth and he was mumbling.
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You can hear people kind of mumbling and talking and praying.
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His phone rang, and he answered, mumbling and then hanging up.
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Too many friends of globalisation are retreating, mumbling about "responsible nationalism".
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Certain parts of words drop out and speech sounds like mumbling.
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Blogging out of the Danzig house, mumbling along to Misfits songs?
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When she was awake, she was kind of mumbling to herself.
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Lea started mumbling the outline of a verse, then a bridge.
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All of her Japanese peers proceed to nod in whispering, mumbling agreement.
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It's the perfect solution when you have trouble hearing Jon Snow mumbling.
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" I demurred, mumbling quietly, "Come back and see me when you're 50.
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" "Most of my discomfort was expressed in me pulling away and mumbling.
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He was behaving oddly, mumbling nonsensical sentences and stumbling through the house.
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Mumbling only helps to say the words and makes it less painful.
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She then moves into some adorable yet incoherent mumbling and lots of ummms.
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I curse, turn around, and go to Target, mumbling about my own stupidity.
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And that's just the part of the song where he's sort of mumbling.
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I remember mumbling something about my eyeglasses just before the lights went out.
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He was mumbling to himself, but his hands were raised in the air.
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" Later, Waldman tells of a woman "mumbling mantras … as she circles the tower.
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And it's not clear that his claims about her mumbling are, well, true.
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"I'm speaking and a woman is mumbling terribly behind me, angry," he said.
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He answered a few procedural questions in court, speaking softly and mumbling his words.
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" She went on to say, "Stop mumbling that you can't afford an HR dept.
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She told me that she began to rock back and forth, mumbling to herself.
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When he did, he found it hard to hold the interrogator's eye, mumbling nervously.
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Would you mind mumbling 'Mm-hmm' on my conference call for a few minutes?
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"Upon his entrance onto the aircraft, he was mumbling to himself," the lawsuit states.
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He spends most of the movie squinting, looking offscreen and mumbling under his breath.
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The humor of Bad Santa largely came from Willie mumbling insults in a Santa suit.
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Take a look y'all: The people in this line were mumbling about "biased" refs, too.
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I am kissing all the trees—searching the mob, mumbling to myself: Who said it ?
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I don't disagree — a lot of prestige television involves mumbling and thick, heavily-coached accents.
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But there I was, mumbling away, while other people from work laughed awkwardly at us.
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He spoke in five-minute monologues, sounding jolly when he laughed and mumbling when pensive.
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Performers came underprepared, mumbling through half-thought-out tales with little response from the crowd.
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Mumbling something about getting a date, he grabbed his towel from the bench and left.
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And Robert Pattinson isn't a lifeless creature mumbling one-liners to an equally apathetic Kristen Stewart.
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Bill also threatens Claire in a kitchen while mumbling about Frank's will, but it's deeply forgettable.
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The entire time I'm crying and mumbling for him to stop but he keeps saying shhh.
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Mr Khan begged for a few more minutes before mumbling excuses and following his minder out.
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Soon she was shaking him in his sleep, telling him he was mumbling about food pairings.
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It turns Christian, who is autistic, into a grim automaton mumbling gibberish and prone to tantrums.
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I don't want to go in there all wacked out, inarticulate, mumbling and all of that.
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If a guest is mumbling, restate a phrase for people who couldn't hear what was said.
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Bannon went on to attack Zuckerberg personally for what he called mumbling during his recent interview.
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So, unless the story is about hearing variously pitched mumbling and having no context in which to place said mumbling or the baby's previous life, which it has not yet forgotten due to the trauma of birth, Nutshell will undoubtedly be a failure of realist fiction.
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He begins by gently beating his hands on the steering wheel and mumbling a lyric or two.
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And wouldn't we all love the redo option after making up an answer and mumbling it, too?
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Snappy percussive elements and indecipherable, mumbling background samples add a murky element to the otherwise warm track.
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My hands were shaking as I measured his neck and I remember mumbling: "You are my hero".
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It's technically edible, but it'll probably leave you with a bad case of the Mumbling Tummy Ruxpins.
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The movie arrived at the tail end of the mumblecore moment and contains plenty of actual mumbling.
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He laughs and smiles incessantly, mumbling aphoristic phrases that may or may not hold up post-trip.
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Gone are the days of ridiculous hacking scenes featuring a mumbling Hugh Jackman and some animated cubes.
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Smiling sweetly, she grasps my hand with a trembling grip, mumbling a greeting I can't quite catch.
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Mumbling I'd meet her at the clothes outlet around the corner, I hurried away to the bathroom.
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"He was mumbling and he was looking at me, but I really didn't care," Mr. Dazio said.
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The girl on the other end was mumbling, so I have no idea who called or why.
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His character, Deckard, was basically a starched overcoat with a crew cut, mumbling through lines with little inflection.
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In the meantime, I'm going to be over here mumbling about consistency and pretending that will be enough.
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Next thing you know, they're staring each other down, Bisping's talking his shit, and Henderson's mumbling his retort.
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Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Fed from 1987 to 2006, was an expert in "mumbling with great incoherence".
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"I freaked out ... and did the same thing to her," Watts told his father, at times mumbling inaudibly.
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Somedays I'd cut at my skin until my body was little more than a pocked-up mumbling consciousness.
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Officers say Young showed several signs of intoxication during the stop -- including, "thick tongued" speech, swaying and mumbling.
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I talked around it, mumbling about how I was trying to figure out who I was or whatever.
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Be grateful that I've given you these details because extracting them from Mr. Pacino's mumbling is really hard work.
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When her husband teased her on the way out the door, mumbling, "Oh, you feminist women," she ignored him.
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A short video of the encounter showed Mr Bouteflika staring blankly into the distance and mumbling a few words.
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They must tell a true, human story of actual value and explain their product without mumbling and hand waving.
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Similarly, even the best of us will find ourselves mumbling along to Bon Iver's "Holocene" once in a while.
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She suggested that mumbling is a way of compressing speech, giving the same amount of meaning in less space.
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We watched as guards gathered at a desk behind a glass partition, peering at us and mumbling among themselves.
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Ryan has managed little more than under-his-breath mumbling about even Trump's most racially confrontational comments as President.
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So he's mostly been spending his time trying to suck up to prominent conservatives and mumbling unconvincingly about free speech.
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As a speaker I often find myself mumbling into a microphone with little thought about the sound system powering it.
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He had a way of moving around quickly and mumbling and then all of the sudden saying something completely insightful.
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On the trail Mr Carson's thin skin and mumbling, almost sleepy delivery, co-existed with a taste for incendiary rhetoric.
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He obliterated the stereotype that hip-hop is just a bunch of thugs grabbing their genitals while mumbling nonsensical lyrics.
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Far from being company for Finn, Brother Reilly continued his fit, mumbling angrily about whores and gooks and dead marines.
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The father-son banter is as amusing as the choices of destinations, though the mumbling Mr. Osbourne sometimes requires subtitles.
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Mr. Reid's oratorical style, which tends toward mumbling, helps create the impression that he is not particularly having much fun.
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That's why we have mumbling; it's a vocal fart that provides the scent of speech without containing any actual content.
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Students had complained that the test included a poor recording of a "mumbling" speech by Prince Harry, the BBC said.
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I spend some time just mumbling around the set, walking by myself in that space for a half day, thinking.
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Ron Wood is a sterling guitar player but my perception of him is basically an aggregation of Mike Myers alcoholically mumbling.
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So I got into speech therapy lessons after that because I was mumbling a lot and kind of had a lisp.
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That defense had the shortest shelf-life of all, with Mulvaney mumbling an embarrassing walk-back only a few hours later.
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More than just a way of expressing things without language, mumbling can also be a way of making language more effective.
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Last year linguistics professor Julie Sedivy wrote a piece defending mumbling against claims that it was an affront to proper language.
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Some of my subjects were proudly displaying and talking about their beards, but others kept mumbling, hidden behind their facial hair.
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Some could be found mumbling as they pondered nonexistent objects, or picking obsessively at bedclothes, or walking about in dreamlike deliriums.
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Soon, I hear only the sound of 100 panicking women mumbling and shuffling to the latest disaster befalling us: Hurricane Harvey.
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Album Review At the beginning of "3 Headed Snake," from his new album, "Drip or Drown 2," Gunna is beautifully mumbling.
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If Liz preferred to keep it moving on the drunk, mumbling dude she met at a wedding, none of us blame her.
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He thanked the producers who first took a chance on "a mumbling actor" back in 2003 and a cavalcade of Warner Bros.
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At one point Kardashian switches the camera around on himself where he can be seen looking dejected and mumbling about being upset.
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In March, he was mumbling some rap lyrics as he played, and somehow the word "indica" came out as the N-word.
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Those of us concerned with growth and movement watched and listened to Klimt's mumbling overhead and attempted to take the machinery in.
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He sang in a deep, gravelly voice that combined singing and mumbling, but he also deployed a falsetto of sorts on occasion.
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I spent more time listening to her, and less time distractedly nodding and mumbling while checking my inbox or tapping out tweets.
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To earn points, he must tag an opponent while mumbling "Kabaddi kabaddi" in one long breath, and then hop back in his half.
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It's still English, sure, but I speak fast and low, mumbling through words that have mild differences in pronunciation to my transatlantic friends.
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Isaacs kind of flubbed his introduction scene, mumbling in an unfamiliar Southern accent with a mouth full of fortune cookie, practically demanding subtitles.
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The BBC News feed of the Labour splitter press conference seems to have someone on the audio track mumbling commentary over the top.
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" The mumbling masturbator is, of course, not a traditional boy band archetype, and definitely not what would be expected of "the cute one.
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A moaning William Preston Taulbee, who was shot by a reporter for The Louisville Times, is occasionally heard mumbling in a Capitol stairwell.
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Per court documents, hypnosis consisted of Bathum sitting behind Irick inside the car while groping her and mumbling comforting words into her ears.
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Who came up with it, and how could they have known that we would still be mumbling it to ourselves 20 years later?
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They may be Harry Potter fans but they've got no patience for Eddie Redmayne's whisper-mumbling, "Boremione" or, worst of all, Johnny Depp.
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Soon we'll all be mumbling to everything in our homes, calling up microwave popcorn and vacuum cleanings like befuddled Scotties in the Voyage Home.
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You know how it goes: nodding or mumbling a reply even though half your attention was on a viral video on your Facebook timeline.
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According to researchers at the University of Texas, they probably sounded like them too, mumbling or cooing like doves rather than roaring like lions.
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Suddenly, a man in a T-shirt and shorts emerged from the shade of a tree on the property, mumbling into a walkie-talkie.
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As we talked, he stared at the floor, mumbling his answers, occasionally losing his train of thought, as if on the verge of sleep.
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I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness.
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There are times when I am extremely frustrated, mumbling and grumbling out loud about how long it's taking me to finish the darned thing.
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Instead, they're checking a Twitter feed instead and mumbling at the criticism or smiling at the praise sent to them on their screens. Ugh.
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A rescue team heard some mumbling in the bushes and found the then-8-year-old 24 hours after he ran from his school.
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In real time, she gets caught up in taking Luke's shirt off with her own rushed hands while mumbling about rubbing oil on his body.
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Mr Putin is a "mumbling, stammering knock-kneed brow-furrowing ex-KGB agent who speaks the language of the gutter and values power above everything".
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Newt's brother Theseus is mentioned in the Fantastic Beasts screenplay, but if it's in the movie we probably missed it due to Redmayne's legendary mumbling.
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The album emphasizes Vernon's vocal garble, which is to his prior angelic whimper as Young Thug's absurdist soundpoetry is to generic rappers mumbling their verses.
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" He doesn't chuckle, just purses his lips and then sends a freezing twirl of spit spiraling toward the gravel below, mumbling, "You've done it again.
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In the clip, Mariah is still recovering from the anesthesia from her surgery — she's very confused, crying and mumbling through the cotton padding her cheeks.
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You eliminate them, pal, and you may as well get rid of baseball and mumbling during holidays about how business has been picking up lately.
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In season six, he was that Westeros guy nibbling on psychedelic weirwood bark, mumbling endlessly about being "the Three-Eyed Raven" and not "wanting" anything.
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"[It was like] an M80 bomb went off in my mouth," Barbero told local station WTEN, presumably mumbling a bit because of the mangled tongue.
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He searched Juul's website to find a local store that sold it, and ordered an Uber to get there, mumbling a nonchalant excuse to relatives.
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Wrapped in a towel, he sang his line repeatedly into a boom mike, alternately braying and mumbling, and then trailing off into a near-whisper.
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Once, she seemingly wandered around the stage mumbling the word, "Childish!" after accepting Childish Gambino's Song of the Year trophy because he wasn't at the ceremony.
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The only part she could remember was when he shook her awake after, mumbling about how she needed to pee so she wouldn't get another UTI.
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Obviously, Midge is witnessing Abe and Rose's post-sex routine, even though the Weissmans are mumbling something about Zelda The Housekeeper (Matilda Szydagis) being at fault.
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Did your date ask you to prom by awkwardly mumbling "Hey so uh, wanna like, go to the prom or whatever?" in front of your locker?
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None of these were ever executed, because I'm good at mumbling and bad at eye contact, and these traits don't lend themselves well to date propositions.
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Still, simply liking a comment about peace posted on an ISIS fan page is like mumbling "guns are bad" in the middle of an NRA conference.
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Sometimes he will lean toward the basket as he bounces, as if he's mumbling to the ball, Get in, get in, don't screw me on this.
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Instead, he spends far too much time scribbling on documents, mumbling, and wordlessly staring at the vestiges of his former life as a badass FBI agent.
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There is a non-zero chance that Sylvester Stallone, America's beefy mumbling sweetheart, will walk out of the Dolby Theater this weekend as an Academy Award Winner.
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When my parents got home, my dad said he found me in my room on the floor in my underwear, mumbling to him I wasn't innocent anymore.
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When I went to watch the video, the trailer was occupied by other visitors and a woman who was scrunched in the small bathtub, mumbling to herself.
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Sometimes I'll hear people in the front row mumbling or singing along very quietly and I get super stoked, because that's the most beautiful thing to me.
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This made it hard to work out what the professional shark-hunter Quint (played by a mumbling Robert Shaw) was proposing to do about the eponymous behemoth.
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Jasanoff describes an incident in which Conrad, after delivering the manuscript of "Under Western Eyes," broke down, becoming delirious and mumbling to himself in Polish for weeks.
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I didn't mind the mumbling so much—people inevitably talk to themselves, and besides, she had nobody to talk to except me, a man aphonic and bed-bound.
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Durst was charged last year with the 2000 death of his friend Susan Berman after mumbling that he "killed them all" during the taping of an HBO documentary.
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One witness to the crash told the Mercury News Peoples appeared to be repeatedly mumbling to himself after the attack, "I love you, Jesus," at the crash site.
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There's nothing like a Campari-soda or a negroni to make you feel like an old Italian man lounging on a cobblestone street and mumbling into the breeze.
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Later in a despairing ceremony, Kingsley jettisons bottles overboard, mumbling the names of members of his family, stranded on the stricken boat, already dead, or soon to perish.
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You can watch at the top of the page but, while David Attenborough's soothing voice is always a joy, it does cut across Thom Yorke's rapt mumbling here.
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"I was thinking back at the video that I saw of Sumner and how vulnerable and confused and alone he was, his blank stare, his mumbling," she said.
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It's in the same key, at the same tempo; it's the same macho, bloke mumbling in the verse, and a big chorus with loads of extended vowel sounds.
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A few old women spat mouthfuls of the cane liquor over us, mumbling blessings, praying that if someone had to die, it wouldn't be someone from their bloodline.
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Mr. Gigante, nicknamed "The Oddfather," had been known to wander Greenwich Village in a bathrobe and pajamas, mumbling incoherently, tending to a feigned image of incompetence and cluelessness.
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My habit at the playground is to keep mostly to myself, mumbling small talk with the other dads only when not speaking at all would be more awkward.
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At the time, I didn't know what to say to her, and I stammered over my answer before mumbling something about how I just thought it was important.
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Still, I find myself Brokeback Mountain-mumbling "I wish I knew how to quit you" as the 6th opening dun-dun rings in my ears every other night.
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The evolution of Tim and Maud's relationship entails a fatal passivity all around: You can imagine the BBC depiction in muted grays and greens, with much inaudible mumbling.
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But he declined to say anything of substance about missiles, mumbling in Russian to answer questions, and then quickly demanding that guards take him back to his cell.
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They're sipping wine, smoking, and mumbling to each other––viewers can assume this is the dregs of a wild night out, or a party that is just winding down.
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Trump characterized Biden's campaign as "stumbling" and "mumbling," but said he would not write off the possibility of a bounce-back in the South Carolina primary later this month.
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He speaks not as if the viewers are confidants or admirers, but in an addled, mumbling ramble, which could just as easily be to himself as to an audience.
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She'd make a great companion for anyone seeking a poorly adjusted, emotionally unavailable woman to sit in a chair in the corner and stare at her laptop while mumbling.
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You can be Young Thug, bending the English language and esoteric rhythms to your supervillainous will, but unable to convince closed minded conservatives that you're doing anything but mumbling.
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A few who traveled by Amtrak or one of the regional train systems waited for taxis in a short line out front, mumbling about how inconvenient the shutdown was.
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Always rumpled, always mumbling, his 6-foot-7-inch frame often slumping, he was not trying to be a globe-trotting master of industry or political mover and shaker.
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"I indicated I'm going to support the national emergency declaration," Mr. McConnell said Thursday afternoon from the Senate floor, mumbling and visibly weary after his conversation with the president.
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She survives, returns to her parents in Michigan, and then starts mumbling about how she's "the OA." Oh, and Prairie used to be blind, but now she can see.
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At the last World Cup, a website even dredged up a psychologist to claim that Messi's mumbling renditions of the national anthem were evidence of a conflicted sense of identity.
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The act of giving her my last, then first name, then birthday — mumbling the year so the other patients don't hear — feels like my declaration of failure as a woman.
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He attacks these samples with the same half-singing, half-mumbling cadence of rappers such as Playboi Carti or Lil Yachty, cloaked in the vocal tones of mall-rockers past.
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The guy, having half-deliberately drunk himself beyond conscious decision-making, ignores her stiffness and whatever she's mumbling; he thinks he's doing exactly what college students are supposed to do.
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" She adds, "If Trump tried to intimidate Susan Collins, I'd walk right up to him and say," she pauses, lowering her head and mumbling before blurting out, "I love you!
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The movie is an hour and 20 minutes of awkward Zach Galifianakis mumbling and thin plot, but it has more than a few moments of comedic brilliance—and celebrity cameos.
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The circularity of a depressive frame of mind, combined with the way he talked, a high-speed mumbling, had already forced him to repeat himself more than he could stand.
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Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei's consumer products division, just spent a solid hour mumbling his way through an awkwardly scripted presentation of the Mate 10 Pro for the US market.
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Suddenly, a hefty man wearing a T-shirt and shorts emerged from the shade of a tree on the property and made his way toward us, mumbling into a walkie-talkie.
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It's known that lean—the codeine-based cocktail favored by many of these artists—makes you slur your words, but it's not just in hip-hop that mumbling is an issue.
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As we walked along, I tried to gauge his interest in politics, mumbling something about the upcoming local election and telling him that one of the candidates went to my college.
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If your business is the most innovative thing on stage that day but you're staring at your shoes, mumbling and reading from the slides… guess who won't be getting a phone call.
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Anyway, Theon was long ago tortured and reduced to calling himself a mumbling servant known as "Reek," because Ramsay is seriously the most odious character on a show full of odious characters.
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The British-born Skrein's stab at a New Jersey accent seems almost as reckless as his character's actions in the air, although Dennis Quaid gives him some competition in the mumbling department.
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It's hard to think about magic mushrooms without being reminded of that time in college when your friend spent, like, an hour staring at the sidewalk mumbling about how we're all connected.
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Espinoza sometimes appeared to be scratching his privates through his pocket while working a sunflower seed in his lips; in fact, he kept a rosary in the pocket and was mumbling prayers.
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He'll lend his unusual stage presence (shy, mumbling, somehow magnetic) to a tale of a writer obsessed with a story of a woman who develops a close relationship with a household pest.
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"Many of the spectators either rocking in their seats with mirth, mumbling as their sides ached, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear,' or they were stilled with sighs and furtive tears," Mordaunt Hall wrote.
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Additionally, a brother of one of the defendants showed a reporter a cellphone video that he said was taken just before the encounter, showing the victim sitting against a playground wall and mumbling.
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And I'm talking about 2010 Youtube, an embryonic social-cyberspace that overflowed with home recordings of pets and mumbling chart covers shot in plain bedrooms ( "So, um, this is Grenade by Bruno Mars").
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White sat on the bed, his head resting against the frame, while his brother sat on the other end by the TV, mumbling commands into a headset for the fantasy video game Fortnite.
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The album features old-timers like the violinist Joe Venuti, and Mr. Redbone fits right in, scatting and mumbling his way through Tin Pan Alley fare like "My Walking Stick," by Irving Berlin.
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With Romulans closing in fast and Klingons on the starboard bow, you can't be mumbling orders from the captain's chair — you need the kind of commanding presence to inspire blind devotion in your crew.
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But several minutes of mumbling through sloth drafts later, Wolk was forced to admit the truth: not a single script he could find contained the sassy backhand slap that ultimately made it to air.
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Similarly, the mumbling in costume dramas often isn't there to purposely make the speech unintelligible, but to create a feeling of naturalism: Not everything said in real life is delivered as a knockout line.
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But by 2017, they had captured only two midlevel tournaments, and Bob was mumbling about wanting to get off the road and spend more time at Disney World with his wife and three children.
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After my admirer left that day, it took me a good hour to quiet my inner judge and send him hulking back down the cellar steps of my consciousness to prowl grumbling and mumbling.
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Alas, if someone is mumbling, amplifying their voice doesn't necessarily clarify it, although being able to tune out other noises that sometimes drown out his voice did help me at least realize he was talking.
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In an Instagram video captured by Stereogum, Dylan was heard mumbling something about "pictures" into the microphone before he angrily took a few steps backward and accidentally tripped over one of the stage's audio monitors.
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We tried to ignore it, but sometimes we caught ourselves repeating what history said, mumbling along, brainwashed: I am nothing.... There is a great darkness bearing down on our lives, and no one acknowledges it.
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The mumbling duet between Glover and Corden as they try to figure it out is worth a watch, especially for their enthusiastic burst into the song's chorus, which is the only part anyone knows, apparently.
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The track itself starts out with a few seconds of delicate mumbling from Win Butler before giving way to the sort of big, bright disco that wouldn't sound out of place on an ABBA record.
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"Oh, did he tweet something?" an editor was saying when I walked into the office, mumbling to no one in particular but loud enough to hear over TVs tuned to the Bush funeral in Houston.
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On this track, Chyna has opted out of sing-songy mumbling, the lyrical style embraced by some of her contemporary male peers, and recently adopted by some of the female ones (like Quavo's new girlfriend, Saweetie).
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Hickenlooper was unfocused in many of his answers, from saying "there is a way of looking at trade that is therapeutic," to mumbling something about "big, you know, noisy hangars" when discussing American military foreign policy.
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For now, you can return to regular heatwave programming: sitting outside, mumbling about how "maybe it's actually too much now" and wondering when you last listened to an album all the way through in one sitting.
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In a 2016 interview, Wiz Khalifa referred to it as "mumble rap," and while mumbling is not new in hip-hop, some artists like Desiigner released entire tracks (check out "Panda") with lyrics fans couldn't understand.
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I'm always piling on the Jets because their GM never makes trades and their owner never fires anyone, and they just seem happy to repeatedly miss the playoffs by ten points while mumbling about the future.
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Directed with maybe too much sensitivity by Colleen Clinton and Lily Dorment for the Pond Theater Company, "The Naturalists" is staged with impeccable, well, naturalism — all that food, all those beers, the mumbling and the pauses.
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Others might suggest that the screenless internet, if it comes, will bring its own peculiar horrors: Picture dead-eyed AirPodders mumbling incantations to robotic assistants as they amble zombielike through Times Square (directed by Jordan Peele).
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He has a teddy-bear physique, a cheerful stage presence and a mumbling, stealth articulate voice — with a tendency to swallow the ends of his sentences like so many frosted snack cakes — that breeds instant intimacy.
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When Grow declared that it was a free hall and he could do as he liked, Keitt stalked over to Grow, mumbling "We'll see about that," and grabbed his throat in preparation to throw a punch.
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The results are compiled in his new book Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois, which Gelder will present at the NYPL, followed by a talk with Bourgeois's assistant and longtime friend Jerry Gorovoy, moderated by artist Arezoo Moseni.
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It was when I caught myself last week mumbling "sorry" to a guy who nearly knocked me over on the street (let that sink in) that it occurred to me that this was getting out of hand.
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The hard-core Brexiteers are divided into two types: golf-club bores who could sort it all out if they were put in charge and mumbling monomaniacs who keep dragging the conversation around to the same point.
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I recorded a meditative bit at Klimt's prompting where I repeated "calm, warm," over and over to notes of Glenn Gould's playing and mumbling stretched and distended to such a degree they were more vibrations than music.
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As the timid and mumbling collator at a tech company in Office Space, all he wants is to bind papers, listen to his radio, use his red stapler, and not have to move cubicles every couple of months.
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So, I've opted to hate Davidson, to make him my mortal enemy, to stare into a swirling, stormy night sky and brood about revenge, mumbling sinister curses into the wind and placing an omen on my family talisman.
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My favorite has to be my old chum Beric Dondarrion's death in Season 3, when the Hound kills him in the cave duel and I got to do a bit of mumbling and bring him back to life.
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As we went around the room, at least two people said their therapist had told them to try this, and one woman clutched a stuffed, life-size Garfield while rocking slightly and mumbling about being afraid of people.
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" Kaine said that 16 years after the original AUMF, "we've got people deployed overseas, people that have lost their lives in this battle against ISIS and not a mumbling word out of us in terms of an authorization.
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While Kitano's trademark mumbling and perpetual poker face may well have made him a flattering target for Sega's artists, that doesn't stop his portrayal from being the most convincingly captured movie star performance I've ever seen in a game.
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For a split second I think I slept, but before I'd had the chance to escape into the world of dreams, I heard ChurchillCigar mumbling about Lucky Strike Oriental Blend cigarettes and reality punctuated that brief moment of respite.
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Not only has he captured the unique gravel of his voice, the combination of thunder and mumbling, but he has replicated his indomitable spirit, at a moment when Churchill -- and the future of England -- were at their most vulnerable.
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Here I am hoping the kids would be slating me for not knowing enough about LGBT dancehall or post-vaporwave or something, and they're hyped for hearing Luke Pritchard miserly mumbling "Sofa Song" once more for old time's sake.
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Part of my life now is just mumbling the f-word at everybody, figuring out how to protect myself from this cycle that happens over and over again, where I believe that people are good and have good intentions.
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Minutes after attacking the media, Trump mocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for purportedly mumbling behind him during the State of the Union — prompting his fans to break out in the "lock her up!" chants usually aimed at Hillary Clinton.
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I felt her embarrassment, but I also understood the need to correct people, to get them to confront the fact that they're looking at a sick body instead of mumbling compliments they don't mean because frailty makes them uncomfortable.
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In the first 10 minutes of Scandal, the phrase "gladiators in suits" is used, Huck's shady past is brought up, and a rich boy covered in blood pops up in the Olivia Pope & Associates offices mumbling about his dead girlfriend.
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To verify that the tape they were selling on their website was real, my colleague went to the URL provided and typed in his credit card info, mumbling something about how he'd probably get his details stolen by a hacker.
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These two were wild and mumbling and the first honest people I felt I'd seen in very many years excepting an individual I'd heard suicide in the home next to me and before he'd gone on and on about his mother.
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On the walk to the theater, Matt kept mumbling "... gonna fight it, that's all... fight the purchase..." I walked to an ATM right after the theater and took that very large sum out of my savings account and paid him cash.
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It opens with her mumbling something like "We just wanna be pretty / pretty that's the goal / we just wanna smile / get a mammy home" as a black woman nursing a baby in a chair gets dragged offscreen by two men.
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Foster is Roy, a criminal in New Orleans with a fondness for drink (more mumbling) and a lung ailment that's probably going to kill him, or at least give him license to make decisions a man with a future wouldn't.
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A 2001 paper in the journal Language and Speech tried to find links between situations and rates of disfluency, a category of speech blunders that includes false starts, accidental repetitions of words, filler utterances (like "ugh" and "um") and incoherent mumbling.
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That's the thing about general Virgo-ness: everyone tries to stroke your color-coded daily/weekly hybrid day planner, mumbling, "Gosh, I wish I were more like you," when one can easily accomplish that by being fiercely, uncompromisingly themselves whenever possible.
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It reaches its peak with the infamous David Letterman interview with ''Joaquin,'' ostensibly there to promote ''Two Lovers'': sullen, mumbling, chewing gum, refusing to remove his sunglasses, barely interacting with Dave — the audience tittering uncomfortably — and then lashing out at him.
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But his bland inscription opens a door that will lead him to the borderland of love, death, time and a devastating kind of transcendence, leaving Kadare's unlikable hero, Rudian Stefa, half-mad, mumbling broken phrases of Latin and archaic Albanian.
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"I pictured my family already having prepared the Iftar fast-breaking food, my mom mumbling her prayers while duly working the modest delicacies, everybody looking for the sun to take its last steps and hide beneath the horizon," Salahi wrote.
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All three band members sing cheerful melodies in breathy unison, commenting on each other's vocal lines, exclaiming and sighing, sometimes mumbling, as they are frantically swept up in a collective rapture that disrupts the illusion of a centered musical subject.
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If over the next few weeks Stan Bowman comes up to you making puppy dog eyes and mumbling about how tough it is in Chicago these days, do not give him one of your best prospects just to be nice.
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Tishby realized that the crux of the issue was the question of relevance: What are the most relevant features of a spoken word, and how do we tease these out from the variables that accompany them, such as accents, mumbling and intonation?
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And in the meantime, let this be yet another reminder: When the GM of your favorite team makes a well-rehearsed frowny face into a camera and starts mumbling about how you just can't trade anymore these days, he's lying to you.
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The former president, slouched in his chair and often mumbling during the almost two-hour long event, said Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance would instead get his vote in Zimbabwe's first general election since his resignation last year.
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"She had taken ill after being there for a few days and when she spoke to her mother on the phone two days before the accident she was mumbling and sounded pretty incoherent," retired electrician Lester Riley, 68, told the Mail Online.
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Still, Kidman's brooding, mumbling, unglamorous turn comes in a vehicle so fraught with clichés that the movie feels as if it's stumbling about until the finishing stretch, which, while somewhat more unpredictable, ultimately comes as too little, too late to redeem it.
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But from the armpit-licking "Spoiled Milk Titties" to the dickhead-picking "Duck Duck Goose," believe she's gotten closer to real-life versions of the carnal variations she dreams up than the average Soundcloud trapper has to the carnage he's mumbling about.
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As for Downey, the actor presumably saw an opportunity to engage in what amount to a lighthearted romp (his mumbling accent falls somewhere in the vicinity of his Sherlock Holmes), but this is an awfully uninspired way of beginning his post-"Avengers" life.
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Mr. Lonergan's portrait of mumbling, emotionally detached Northeastern working-class whites forced to deal with unbearable loss is a story about a distinctly individual trauma, but also about how a community's particular traits and habits can alter the way that loss is felt.
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As campaign trail talk of moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv -- a longstanding Israeli dream and Palestinian nightmare -- trails off into mumbling as the possible consequences become clear, Trump's belief that he can make "the impossible deal" is being aired more confidently.
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Like anything, it's not black or white, though I greatly prefer a partner who smokes over past relationships where I'd be ripping cannons and my then-partner(s) wouldn't understand why I'd be up super late reading weird shit and mumbling about dessert nachos.
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Depp plays this character by waltzing around in a black cloak, sporting contact lenses and a Tilda Swinton-esque haircut (side note: Swinton would have killed it as Grindelwald) and mumbling about free love and the cruelty of Muggles in a vague British affect.
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On Saturday, D'Angelo was apparently running late — midway through that night's performance, there was what appeared to be a stretch of genuine stalling, including Black Thought's humorously mumbling his take on Desiigner's "Panda," and a brief, self-deprecating stand-up turn by Dave Chappelle.
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If Britain were an airline, we'd be very much like the one British Airways gives us in its ad — idling on the runway, sipping our tea and mumbling our self-congratulatory eulogies, reveling in our isolation because all sense of a destination has disappeared.
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I was excited to finally see a Pakistani lead on a big screen, and I hoped to have a few knowing laughs at what it means to grow up as a second-generation South Asian caught between mumbling your way through prayer and swooning at Luke Perry.
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The entire time-bending production is so overwhelming, it's likely you will eventually feel like a malfunctioning Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) robot, dumbfounded and staring at Hannah's latest flirtationship play out on screen, mumbling, "Is this now?!" over and over again until someone closes your laptop.
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Last June, when I found myself laying in bed, gasping for breath, mumbling "uh uh uh" — literally just repeating that sound — to somehow push through the pain radiating from my lower abdomen into my chest, not even then was I considering a trip to the hospital.
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In fact, one of my favorite scenes in the movie (and there are A LOT) has her mumbling in Russian about how Simon and Renton should just give it up and make out already, as the two bros mansplain her about 1970s football (the British kind).
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I started mumbling under my breath during the Sunday sermon, balking at the opinions of my hardcore conservative friends, dating Christian guys that were threatened by my "alternative" beliefs, and questioning the validity of many of the points I'd spent three years trying to hammer into Adam.
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And at every turn, the Coens take the piss out of these ideas, whether it's via a cranky-voiced director mumbling at Clooney to "tremble" as he looks upon Jesus, or in Johansson ripping her mermaid crown off her head and whipping it at a bandleader.
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A couple of the leaked songs, "The Mind Is Powerful" and "Fall Out of Heaven" — which may or may not be from the "Pablo" sessions — are half-song, half-sketch, with Mr. West mumbling his way through the melody, moving from scribbled outline to completed thought and back again.
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The last time I visited one, a decade after my summer at the camp, I thought the animals all looked like William S. Burroughs: simultaneously jumpy and depressed, as if they were mumbling dark pronouncements under their breath and might shoot each other for laughs if given the chance.
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"Don't you think that it's kind of surreal that we are in a place now as a country where we're like, 'Oh, don't listen to the president,' like he's a crazy person on a park bench with an onion tied to his belt, just mumbling incoherently," Cooper said.
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It jets wildly from Gordon staring at a swirling sky vortex to Bobby being confronted by some strange zombie child to Cooper finally mumbling the words "damn good" in reference to a piece of cherry pie, and it somehow makes them all feel like parts of the whole.
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But New Girl is more sentimental than Girls, and more nostalgic for its own past, and so the jokes feel slightly more stagnant — Nick leaves a bowl of mashed potatoes under his bed for months; Schmidt melts into a mumbling mannequin when he finds out about Cece's past relationships.
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Mumbling alpha male Chad, who insists he's "emotionally and financially" ready to share his life with someone during his brief interaction with JoJo (GROSS, but she loves it), spends much of the episode ruing the day the rest of the world dared to exist and building himself up.
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Enthusiastic crotch-dust pitchman, mumbling broadcaster, perpetual thorn in Kobe Bryant's side, star of Kazaam and player of a bit part in Grown Ups 26, prominent hamburger investor, NBA champion, borderline adequate rapper, brave advocate for recovering from surgery "On Company Time"—we would know none of this.
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There are many nuggets to savor in The New York Times's deep dive into Marco Rubio's glitch heard 'round the world, including him scrolling through Twitter to read the scathing insta-reviews of his debate performance (which I like to think involved him mumbling "the horror, the horror" under his breath).
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Warped Tour crawled off into the dark gray sky last week and I hung art in an apartment and shopped for winter clothes before summer was even ending and researched retirement accounts while mumbling about how none of us are going to be alive to spend the money we've saved.
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And work is no easy walk down the aisle, either: If you've ever walked down a narrow airplane hall and accidentally banged your knee on an armrest, mumbling a string of four-letter words under your breath, you can only imagine how it must feel for Ronan on the daily.
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His mumbling, stream-of-consciousness style takes him from twice leading the National League in hits to the bankruptcy fraud case that got him jail time, to the Major League Baseball pension that goes each month to his ex-wife, to being a whale to the casinos in Atlantic City.
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When he finally dropped the first single — a big, melodic, retro rock ballad — it was a surprising twist, in part because it was mostly nothing like the purple one's style, and also because it seemed out of place amid the current minimalist male pop stardoms of low-key EDM mumbling and sad trap.
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Fast-forward to the dawn of CGI humans — think Sid from Toy Story and his grotesque face — and then fly even further into the future Leia looking out over a space battle and mumbling "Hope" and you see the scope of achievement in CGI humans as well as the deep problems with representing humans digitally.
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If I had been an alumni interviewer tasked with rating Alex's personality on a scale of 1 to 6, with 1 being a student who showed unusual intellectual curiosity, grit and effervescence and 6 being a mumbling 4chan troll who would be a nightmare for his roommates, I would have given Alex a solid 3.
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If I had been an alumni interviewer tasked with rating Alex's personality on a scale of 1 to 6, with 1 being a student who showed unusual intellectual curiosity, grit and effervescence and 6 being a mumbling 4chan troll who would be a nightmare for his roommates, I would have given Alex a solid 3.
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While her socialite hey-day was obviously in the early aughts when it seemed like she was everywhere you looked, wearing a Von Dutch hat and low-slung Juicy Couture velour track pants, closely accompanied by her constant companions Nicole Richie and/or Lindsay Lohan, and mumbling, "That's Hot," at anything and everything that crossed her path.
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He was triggering violent, dissonant, abrasive sounds on a laptop and some MIDI controllers and pedals—seemingly free-form in nature, but often latching on to each other to form an internal logic of some sort—occasionally banging away on a floor-tom he had for assistance, or half-mumbling, half-growling through a distorted filter on the mic.
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Yeah, sure, on an objective level it's terrible and spits in the face of most music that's ever been made in this genre, but on the other hand, part of me admires the audacity that Chief Kief has by just mumbling about whiskey and heartbreak over a simple guitar line and calling it a music project.
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The cast's only woman apart from Ms. Gerling, she also appears as the Fool, a role that allows her to show more dramatic range, although — mumbling through the role comically wide-eyed, with her squeezebox in tow — she is more dope than jester as she follows the mad king around the mostly bare but dramatically lit stage.
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From the way he was talking, it seemed he was determined to unfold the entire history of agriculture from the first primal seed on, because he was still speaking as they left the house, mumbling something about cut nails, circa 1850, and then a few words about the use of clapboard peaks as a way to ward off shingle damage.
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When he was younger, Mumblez didn't even think hip-hop artists were rapping—he thought they were mumbling and would mouth along to videos on the TV. But after his mom told him to stop pissing her off and learn the lyrics, he studied 50 Cent and The Game's "How We Do," figured he could rap along, and started to spit "Candy Shop" outside school.
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There are old men with their belongings piled at their feet; women pushing strollers around the room to keep babies quiet; photographers with heavy sweaters and beards mumbling to each other and packing tripods up early; guys with official-seeming blue blazers and lapel pins covering their mouths with their entire stretched palm to hide big yawns that make them look like lions about to nap.
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His vocal – a nasal whine the likes of which have gone unheard since James Blunt retired from music to become Mr Twitter Banter – chomps up the syllables to sound more regional and everyman; over-enunciating some, mumbling and drawling others like he's still a shy guy at an open mic night in a local pub, and splitting Robyn's righteous "Ohhh" hook in the chorus into three, breathy syllables.
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So next time you're mumbling along to the words in a community center in Cromer, pissed on cheap Cava, queasy from a day spent trying to stuff as many sausage rolls as possible into your pastry-lined gob, stumbling over yourself straight into the fragile figure of your great-aunt, just remember that you're experiencing something incredibly special, and important and unusual: you're having an experience that most of the world can relate to.
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" But maybe they weren't actually seeing Dylan at all—maybe they were actually watching a hologram of Dylan strumming his guitar and mumbling through "Just Like a Woman," while the real Bob Dylan's bones lay six feet beneath the earth in a secret tomb in the middle of the desert somewhere, hidden away by a secret cabal of record executives and entertainment moguls who stand to make a fortune off of keeping him "alive.
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And after fumbling for words and mumbling something in English like a common tourist who has never been to Paris even once, after the waiter rolls his eyes and theatrically turns on his heel, revealing himself to be a bad imitation of a breed of French waiter that might've died off around the time Hemingway last set foot on the continent, after looking down at an idiotic crepe — we might as well be at Universal Studios Hollywood!
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