How To Use Raconteur In A Sentence
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Boy, what we are willing to subject ourselves to for our local raconteur (I almost said quidnunc).
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He was the most wonderful raconteur and he could make a good anecdote last 20 minutes.
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My father made my mother laugh so much - he was a great raconteur and told the funniest stories.
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A very sociable man, he had his own chair at his ‘local’ where he was appreciated as a raconteur of amusing and highly-embroidered stories.
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The big story of the day is that Jack White has launched yet another new band, the Dead Weather, with The Kills 'sassy caterwauler Alison Mossheart on vocals, the Raconteurs' Jack Lawrence on bass and Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertitia on guitar.
Idolator
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Raconteurs like Peter Ustinov were once the stars of chat shows before they dumbed down and the guests became one long procession of slebs trying to sell something, whether it be CD, book, film or whatever.
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- The Times (UK) Boyd is from the same generation as Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan and, as a literary technician and raconteur, he is at least their equal.
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd: Book summary
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We all enjoyed his quick wit and his skill as a raconteur.
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The raconteur mentioned that the quotation was from the Bible.
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People enjoyed his company: he was amusing and a fine raconteur.
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The trouble is, Dawson was a born raconteur, and like most raconteurs he sometimes embellished his stories to amuse his listeners.
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She's a great raconteur, fantastically sharp and frank and funny.
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My brother, being the great raconteur that he is, would entertain us with stories of his naughty antics from school, then later, from work.
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A great raconteur with a booming voice, he loves horseracing and has owned runners.
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He was a tireless raconteur and a man of stature whose one vice, he said, was food.
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He used his mental capacity to act as raconteur and juicy gossipmonger.
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There could be no happy ending for the great raconteur, we had all known that.
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Sir Peter Ustinov was a great raconteur and notable humanitarian, but don't forget about his acting says a noted film historian.
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Once he gets going, there is no stopping this longtime Chicago talk-show host, sports commentator, actor, professional raconteur.
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But he is such a famed raconteur, one is always looking for a mischievous twinkle in the eye.
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You have heard from your most talented wordsmiths, best raconteurs, and most assiduous participants.
Home Stretch
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He was a tireless raconteur and a man of stature whose one vice, he said, was food.
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He's an extraordinary raconteur and very bold.
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But a purist who objects so forcibly to archaism and archaicism should avoid such terms as "whilom Persian Secretary" (p. 170); as anthophobia, which he is compelled to explain by "dread of selecting only what is best" (p. 175), as anthophobist (p. 176); as "fatuous ejaculations" (p. 183), as a "raconteur
Arabian nights. English
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Blaine was a rare raconteur and his talk had this great merit: never did I hear him tell a story or speak a word unsuitable for any, even the most fastidious company to hear.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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Mark is quite the raconteur once he relaxes a bit.
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Making his television debut last night, Kilstein offered up five and a half minutes of the kind of rapid-fire, incisive and affably angry comedy that has earned him fans in fellow comics like Janeane Garafalo, Robin Williams and Paul Provenza who included Kilstein in his bookSatiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians.
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As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality.
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I became a raconteur, the wittiest humourist, sensitive and worshipping.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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It is always a delightful experience to eat there, and Louis' presence as a raconteur just adds to it all.
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So ... what is it about this itinerate cobbler's son become raconteur and fashion policeman to the world's glitterati that makes him the center of today's Powerpeoples 'world? heheRUSH LIMBAUGH SHOULD BE ARRESTED AT ONCE!
Mayor Bloomberg, Buy Those Handguns
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And in an age when hairdressing salons are a bit like assembly lines it's refreshing to meet a real raconteur and bon viveur.
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A small masterpiece of deadpan wit, it's a reminder of the qualities that also make him an incomparable raconteur and interviewee.
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But my father was a great "raconteur" and he just loved to have somebody come in the house and, after we'd moved to the new house as we called it where the Junior League is now, he just loved to lay back in his chair.
Oral History Interview with George Watts Hill, January 30, 1986. Interview C-0047. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur," said she to another.
War and Peace
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A small masterpiece of deadpan wit, it's a reminder of the qualities that also make him an incomparable raconteur and interviewee.
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‘He's a raconteur and multi-instrumentalist able to portray a sense of fun one minute and sheer emotion the next,’ says one admirer.
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He was a great raconteur.
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Once he gets going, there is no stopping this longtime Chicago talk-show host, sports commentator, actor, professional raconteur.
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He is an engaging raconteur, and the narrative offers a wealth of information on both past and present conditions in this part of the world.
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A gifted raconteur, he was born to talk, to entertain, to lose the plot, to start again, to regale you with tales from one of the fullest lives a human being could ever live.
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Utah Phillips, a former NPR host who was blacklisted in the state of Utah after an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 1968 on the Peace and Freedom party ticket can be described as a raconteur extraordinaire, a radical historian well-versed in the sorrowful details of the bloodiest social justice struggles of the last century, a hobo, and one hell of a musician whose songs can break your heart and bring your blood to a boil.
Mutual aid for Utah Phillips: a benefit show in Minneapolis, December 15 at 6:00 PM
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Any performers are welcome to share their skills at the open mike session - musicians, dancers, poets, puppeteers, raconteurs and actors.
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Any performers are welcome to share their skills at the open mike session - musicians, dancers, poets, puppeteers, raconteurs and actors.
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• Brian Simpson Obituary, 2 February was indeed a gifted raconteur.
Letters: Nukes in safe hands
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He was a famous raconteur remembered for many performances of his dialogue, which he spoke with his daughter, on the nature of mathematics.
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As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality.
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Durrell, as well as loving animals to distraction, also had the light-hearted touch of the raconteur.
Why Johnny Morris was magic
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She was a first-rate raconteur who delivered stories with dry, sometimes biting wit.
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I observed that, as a raconteur, he held court in the Trinity faculty dining room, befriending administrators, liberal artists, science professors, waiters, and busboys equally.
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And his friends knew him as a highly entertaining mimic and raconteur.
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Raconteurs, those ‘called upon to say a few words’, and professional gagsters alike will relish this unbeatable collection of wit and humour.
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Foremost among them are a fine intellectual acuity, a great sense of humour, a matchless raconteurial skill, a superb capacity for loyalty and friendship, and a keen interest in national and international affairs.
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American kids are brilliant raconteurs; they will talk about anything and talk well, as long as there's no written object to refer to.
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Describing her role as a "raconteur," she said, "Verlaine's poems are sheer romance.
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Cleaves writes about desperate men, losers and failures, all from the perspective of a bar room raconteur.
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Burke wants his talk with the irrepressible raconteur to take place as an actionless walkabout.
The Speculist: Luckily, we don't face these challenges...
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He rarely wrote letters, conducting his business on the telephone or, more often, holding court in public houses, where he was an unrivalled raconteur.
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I became a raconteur, the wittiest humourist, sensitive and worshipping.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Literary romanticism and cultural nationalism informed the historical consciousness of regional raconteurs like Hall who looked for American themes within the history of the West.
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York was known as a raconteur who loved telling jokes, including to the stone-faced negotiators for the Soviet Union during the long sessions in Geneva.
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He had a terrific sense of humor and was a great "raconteur"--look it up!
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An actor ( "Midnight Run" and those dog movies) and natural-born raconteur, he takes over Snyder's CNBC slot with the kind of dryly comic anecdotes he's filled three books with.
Late Night Unplugged
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Being a raconteur is a rare - and dying - art.
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‘I can remember every nanosecond of that crash,’ says Neeson, who possesses a soft Antrim brogue and the delivery of a born raconteur.
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But he is such a famed raconteur, one is always looking for a mischievous twinkle in the eye.
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“The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she to another.
War and Peace
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She was a cultured woman, a great raconteur with a wealth of stories and anecdotes, a keen observer of life and above all she was a deeply religious woman, with a special devotion to St Padre Pio.
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His grandfather was a fine raconteur.
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He was a famous raconteur: the younger Seneca calls Pedo _fabulator elegantissimus_ at _Ep_ CXXII 15-16 when repeating one of his anecdotes.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The evening will also include contributories from musicians and local raconteurs.
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He was also a fine performer and raconteur.
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He was an active and knowledgeable gardener and he remained a highly competitive bridge player and an excellent raconteur of amusing medical reminiscences.
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An admirable talker, 'raconteur', and mimic, with a wit's relish for wit, the charm of his good temper was irresistible.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
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He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse.
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Noel Coward, the multi-talented British playwright, actor, songwriter raconteur, first visited Jamaica in 1944 on a two week holiday.
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It is specifically because Im a carrier of raconteurs disease, in its most virulent form, that I have come to realize that one can never really cross-pollinate the act of live storytelling with its literary reflection.
An Interview with Thomas Steinbeck
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A very sociable man, he had his own chair at his ‘local’ where he was appreciated as a raconteur of amusing and highly-embroidered stories.
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His grandfather was a fine raconteur.
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The painter is a seriously anecdotal man, a raconteur par excellence who needs no aide-memoires, at age 77.
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The Matisse that he reveals is passionate, generous and driven; a wonderful raconteur and loyal friend, ruled above all by an unswerving dedication to his art.
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Tiernan performs with the casual ease of a natural raconteur, but the appearance belies an almost fretful perfectionism.
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The patrons of the Academie are a roll call of the great and good, including Michel David-Weill, of Lazards Bank, and Sir Peter Ustinov, the polyglot actor and raconteur.
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Gone is the raconteur and court jester rolled into one big loveable package.