`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

Despite Brando's dedication, the producer, Stanley Kramer, and director, Fred Zinnemann, were at first worried about Brando's performance in rehearsals because he mumbled his lines and gave little response to his fellow actors.

Most of the criminals had nearly identical bands of three or four henchmen who all mumbled different phrases at once, resulting in incomprehensible chatter.

" Ms. McCoy had heard that Clarice Vance had once been an entertainer and had found a couple of her recordings, finally asking her to autograph the labels, but " Clarice demurred and mumbled something about it'all being in the past ', and changed the subject ".

In June 2005, after answering her question in the National Assembly about a possible conflict of interest involving his spouse, Premier Jean Charest mumbled " hostie de chienne ", an insult which would roughly translate in English as " fucking bitch ".

Simultaneously, it was reported that her son Ivan Lopukhin, being drunk in a tavern, denounced Elizaveta's taste for English beer and mumbled several phrases which were interpreted calling for restoration of Ivan VI of Russia.

Saeed then mumbled about " two Satans that must be destroyed: the Pope and America.

Titivillus has also been described as collecting idle chat that occurs during church service, and mispronounced, mumbled or skipped words of the service, to take to Hell to be counted against the offenders.

Eventually Chapman was able to stand and try to walk off the field, but he could not speak when he tried to do so, but only mumbled.

Prior to his death, he manages to phone Farr's house to leave a mumbled message referring to another victim of the ring.

There are enough mumbled half-liners in this contemporary war pic to satisfy those die-hards eager to see just how he portrays the consummate marine veteran.

The soundtracks featured sparse music, futuristic sound effects, dialogue that was mumbled rather than spoken, and heavy use of reverb.

The soundtracks featured sparse music, futuristic sound effects, dialogue that was mumbled rather than spoken, and heavy use of reverb.

His reading was not a huge success as he mumbled most of his lines.

Hank mumbled that it was a good title for a song and by the next day when the band gathered for their show on WSFA, he was picking out the tune to " I saw the Light ".

The show's purpose was also conveyed by the recurring bad guy, le Furotte ( played by André Cartier ), who always mumbled incoherently.

Meanwhile, Neil mumbled “ Phillip ”, leading Roger to suspect that was who hit him.

On the drive back to Snowflake, Walton seemed afraid, shaken, anxious and repeatedly mumbled on about beings with terrifying eyes.

Highlights have included Jimi Hendrix who, on hearing someone else's track being played by mistake ( in the days of live broadcast ), mumbled " I don't know the words to that one, man ", Shane MacGowan of the Pogues ' drunken performance of " Fairytale of New York ", a performance of " Roll with It " by Oasis in which Noel and Liam Gallagher exchanged roles with Noel miming to Liam's singing track and Liam pretending to play guitar, and John Peel's appearance as the mandolin soloist for Rod Stewart on " Maggie May ".

Jah Wobble acquired his stage name through the drunken, mumbled version of Wardle's name by Sid Vicious, which Wobble kept because " people would never forget it ".

Playing Idiot ’ s Delight. In the film, though, merely the short phrase idiot's delight is mumbled by Capt.

Other characters in and out of the Gildersleeve orbit included Richard LeGrand as Peavey the druggist ( his dry, almost mumbled " Oh, now, I wouldn't say that " also became a familiar catch-phrase ), Arthur Q. Bryan ( making a name as sarcastic Doc Gamble on Fibber McGee & Molly ) as Floyd the barber, Ken Christy as police chief Gates, Shirley Mitchell as Leila Ransom, Bea Benaderet as another Gildersleeve paramour Eve Goodwin, and occasionally Gale Gordon ( Mayor LaTrivia on McGee ) as Rumson Bullard, a neighbour who served Gildersleeve the way Gildersleeve had once served Fibber McGee --- an equal for obnoxiousness.

They speak in a heavily mumbled manner almost indecipherable to the watcher ; however, their speech is also shown in speech bubbles.

`` I'll get around to it a little later '', he mumbled desperately.

`` Good ole lob-scuse '', he mumbled, and stirred the pot.

At the end he mumbled in his sleep, then said, " Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.

Mr. Bean rarely speaks, and when he does, it is generally only a few mumbled words which are in a comically low-pitched voice.

The song of this unobtrusive bird is quiet and mumbled.

* In a 1980s Spider-Man comic, Peter Parker mumbled " Mxyzptlk " in his sleep.

The men " mumbled something ", whereupon McFadden spun Terry around, patted down his outside clothing, and felt a pistol in his overcoat pocket.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.

She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

The girl tapped the quirt impatiently against her knee and glared at him.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Silence walked at Pamela's side, its presence numbingly close, yet too far for her to hear.

bushes swished and scratched at her slacks ; ;

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

He slid in at her side, tucked a cigar into his mouth, and politely proffered one to her.

Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom Brannon.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.