talking head
nounDefinition of talking head
: the televised head and shoulders shot of a person talking
also
: a television personality who appears in such shots
Examples of talking head in a Sentence
The debate was followed by hours of talking heads analyzing the candidates' performances.
Recent Examples on the Web
Yet there’s no distinction to the filming of these interviews, which are done in bright yet manicured light in the form of talking heads, neither close enough for intimacy nor distant enough for a sense of physicality. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "Review: “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” and the Problem of the Archive," 29 Aug. 2019 If there’s a talking head who is blabbering confidently about the Tigers before Week 1, then that person is not to be trusted with money or horses. — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, "Auburn is the most unpredictable team in the country," 19 Aug. 2019 For now, this is only applied to talking head videos. — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, "This Bill Hader Deepfake Video Is Amazing. It's Also Terrifying for Our Future.," 13 Aug. 2019 But if some cable news talking head or newspaper columnist gets it into their head that the new Spider-Man film is pushing a political agenda and makes a big deal of it, that could cut into the bottom line. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Spider-Man: Far From Home turns a class-conscious hero into a tech bro," 3 July 2019 Long Shot gets a nice shot of energy with the appearance of Larry David as a talking head true crime witness (which sounds like a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode plot itself). — Lincoln Michel, GQ, "How Curb Your Enthusiasm Saved a Man From Death Row," 9 June 2018 At another point, a talking head (that of McKenzie Wark) went on about political theory. — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, "In the de Young’s Wilsey Court, the eye that speaks," 9 May 2018 And its cable-TV feed didn’t work—which meant the gang couldn’t tune in to see just how badly Wall Street talking heads were freaking out about Target’s stock. — Fortune, "Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a Turnaround," 20 Aug. 2019 In the past, when a critical mass of TV talking heads, print editors, and reporters decided that an incident was damning, that generally determined the controlling narrative about a candidate. — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, "Do Joe Biden’s Gaffes Still Matter in the Age of Trump?," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'talking head.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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