As Painter interrupted the auction, his BlackBerry aloft, the auctioneer eyed him but never broke patter.
With his sales patter and his brief time as a policeman, McCormick was a convincing pitch man.
He spoke no English, but his friendly patter and his smile conveyed all we needed to know.
But the potential power of these numbers to disrupt the typical politico patter was evident even in this election.
The pitter-patter is drowned out as people take to the dancefloor, twirling and flat-footing in a sweaty, happy mass.
When Jackson navigates his way through the patter (like the pro he already was) and starts to sing, you almost forget.
When the shipment arrives sometime this month, Rohayu will swap the scratchy caress of claws for the patter of eight tiny, hairy feet.
But for Alice, a pleasant male companion is what she wants a lot more than someone that might make her heart go pitter-patter.
Kennedy gabbled and shrieked and spouted inside jokes, while I wrung my hands nervously, smirked blandly and tried to keep up with Kennedy's patter.
But, every now and then, just ahead: the patter of foot flesh striking wet stone, or the lip and tongue smacks of very small mouths.
The result was so distracting, though, that I found myself unable to attend to his patter or even the magic tricks with any real pleasure.
It wasn't so bad like listening to baseball on the radio and without the distraction of the scene it was easier to focus on the auctioneer's patter.
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Even when Ed Sheeran incorporates hip-hop beats and discusses teenage pregnancy and homelessness, he does so with the sympathetic patter of a mate down the pub.
Her hours-long lecture is a mesmerizing romp of set pieces and extemporaneous patter, jumping from Christopher Columbus, to Egyptian pyramids, to the Great Wall, to Bill Gates.
Travelling with Soon-Yi Previn and his sister, Letty Aronson, Allen delivers the same scintillating patter that marks his films and, unsurprisingly, seems as idiosyncratically fussy in life as in art.
Bewitched by the patter of a perfume merchant, entranced by the pink and gold of these scented flasks, he steals some of the rejected bottles and hides them in the pigpen.
Exciting youngsters like Paul Slane, Ross Forbes and Jamie Murphy will relish the lush new playing surface at Fir Park (how will the Scottish media survive without their tiresome Battle of the Somme patter?).
Together with the 30-odd stockbrokers he has hired from Nomura, Japan's biggest stockbroker and his former employer, Mr Kitao runs a finely tuned investor-relations unit at Softbank, which puts out a steady patter of exciting news about the company's new ventures.
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If the oceans do not make your heart go pitter-patter, how about engineering a bacteria that eats carbon dioxide -- and thus helps protect the world from overheating -- AND excretes fuel which will allow us to drive our cars and machines, without oil?
Old-timers Lee Trevino and Chi-Chi Rodriguez pop into mind with their comic patter and dramatic flair (Rodriquez was famous for his routine of waving his putter at the hole after sinking a putt and then thrusting it into an imaginary scabbard on his hip).
He rattles off the quack's sales patter with buffo aplomb, whistles humorously through his teeth during his comic impersonation of an elderly senator at the wedding banquet, and his duel of wits with Ms. Netrebko at the end of Act II demonstrates the cavernous distance between their vocal styles.
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