But condolences in an environment of hatred and homophobia is cheap talk.

To her, free speech boils down to cheap talk from officials.

Perhaps cheap talk can move stock prices a tiny bit, but if so, the response was only temporary.

There was liquor and marijuana, cheap talk and short tempers.

In game theory, cheap talk is communication between players which does not directly affect the payoffs of the game.

For example, one can add a round of cheap talk in the beginning of the Battle of the Sexes.

It is not guaranteed, however, that cheap talk will have an effect on equilibrium payoffs.

It has been commonly argued that cheap talk will have no effect on the underlying structure of the game.

With all this hype and cheap talk they make the game look ignorant.

President Bush, notably, has not engaged in cheap talk of appeasement and lack of patriotism.