Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A pundit who discusses issues of the day, especially one on TV.
WordNet
n. a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen
Wikipedia
Talking Head or Talking Heads may refer to:
is a 1992 live action film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. It's a surreal meta-film mystery involving the production of an anime called Talking Head.
The film has many references to the anime industry with characters being named after animators such as Yasuo Ōtsuka and Ichirō Itano, designer Yutaka Izubuchi, writer Kazunori Itō, and composer Kenji Kawai. The director of the film within the film is named Rei Maruwa, which was a pseudonym for Oshii on several of his projects.
The film features a short anime segment by famous character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto (of Macross fame).
Usage examples of "talking head".
Not just looked, but looked over the carefully erected barricade ofsterile drapes that divided his wife Jennifer into the Amazing Talking Head onone side and No Man's Land on the other.
You were a handsome talking head, who was not identified with any political faction.
Nothing from space at all now, nothing from Munchen but a brief flicker of a talking head mouthing without sound.
Not just looked, but looked over the carefully erected barricade of sterile drapes that divided his wife Jennifer into the Amazing Talking Head on one side and No Man's Land on the other.
It would be altogether different if Frame 1 were a talking head and Frame 2, a fraction of a second later, were a postcard shot of a Hawaiian beach and Frame 3 a diagram of a printed circuit and Frame 4 a closeup of a dragonfly’.
And body bags, burning buildings, and bombing attacks, all absolutely genuine and captured on HD for the evening news, are more impressive than any talking head ever seen.
Once they've had a chance to do that, and once we identify the com people we want, I feel confident we can record enough imagery of them for our reeducated computers to let us fake up an acceptable talking head.
If we want this talking head to be vulnerable to charges down the road, Public Information’.
If we want this talking head to be vulnerable to charges down the road, Public Information's going to have to be careful about just how we initially build him up for public consumption.
It was enough to know that his spine wasn't severed, that he wasn't going to finish out his life as a dead lump of body attached to a talking head.
A talking head, a woman comes up on the screen, she calls herself Jane?