Seconds later I heard her mumbling off the phone, and then I heard everyone in the office howling with laughter.
a mumbling parson stood beside the dying man; muttering crowds of onlookers.
If that means mumbling "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty..." when I believe nothing of the kind, then so be it.
The only people standing still were some Latino grocery boys smoking cigarettes by a stack of milk crates and, next to them, an old black man with a whitened beard mumbling at the pavement.
Camus cited noir as an influence, but this American crime version of existentialism is less rigorous, more vague, like the mumbling of some low-rent hood.
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