mutterings

After some mutterings about not being able to leave and after two hours there was a message saying that it was impossible to come over.

The sound changed, not into the silence which had preceded the arrival of these stunning news, but into stifled mutterings.

The mutterings about disproportionate punishment are even louder in options backdating, the other corporate scandal of the moment.

I did not realize that its mutterings were following me back into the light.

There are dark mutterings of a coup against him by moderates in his own party.

At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud.

Mutterings among some of the neighbors about wicked "capitalist roaders" soon died down.

The blackness of darkness reigned, and the perfect stillness was interrupted only by occasional mutterings of distant thunder.

In the wake of the storm over "trading huddles, " there are new mutterings of investment bank tip-offs to preferred research clients.

He refers to "mutterings" and bad body language of staff at a recent meeting.

Mutterings that thinly veiled protectionism would see most of the contracts go to domestic players may not be wholly justified.

Similar mutterings are heard about the $2 billion allocated to China's state-owned rail sector.

There are mutterings about how quickly Menu Foods reacted to reports of pet deaths.

the disparate mutterings of a grumpy electorate that has lost faith in its leader