Elvis Mitchell

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it's not a great film.

American Critic

Derek Walcott

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

Poet

Voluble implies speaking at a fast pace, reflecting a stream of thoughts.

Speaking Speed

While it can suggest chattiness, 'voluble' often carries a positive tone of enthusiasm.

Positive Connotation

'Voluble' can imply fluency and ease with words, not just quantity of speech.

Fluent Speech

 ritual I began I always begin with the pulse then I examined the hands then I look at the nail beds and I slide my finger up to the epic rocker node and I was into my ritual and when my ritual began this very voluble patient began to quiet down and I remember having a very

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 And when my ritual began, this very voluble patient began to quiet down. And I remember having a very eerie sense that the patient and I had slipped back into a primitive ritual in which I had a role and the patient had a role.