How To Use Storyteller In A Sentence

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A compelling storyteller with many voices lyric, operatic and diaristic, Ms. Snyder is often provocative; occasionally didactic or off-key. The Lady of the Wild Things
Singers, musicians, dancers and storytellers are always appreciated on St. Patrick's Day.
And the title essay picks up this theme: "Let the dedicated activist never overshadow the dedicated servant of literature — the matchless storyteller. Books: Sontag's Last Stands
Another storyteller in the SF and fantasy realm whom I really admire is Orson Scott Card -- both for the Ender and the Seventh Son series. It Ain't the Meat

The storyteller touched a chord
From this verbal prestidigitator, we imbibe the lesson that both storyteller and con man make us willing victims. A Small-Town Sorcerer Casts His Spell
I think that the art of a storyteller is to take the story and improvise on it.
Steeped in tradition, Kilgarvan is world-renowned for its rich folklore and its many scribes, songwriters and storytellers.
He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read. Times, Sunday Times
In this book she proves herself a good storyteller as well. Christianity Today
He generally relates the story in chronological fashion, but, like many storytellers, he often stops to present tangential information about a new character or situation.
Audiences are led on a tour and entertained along the way by singers, dancers and storytellers and are given the opportunity to speak to residents.
In the end, this band of storytellers has no other recourse when faced with political or personal difficulties than the remembrance of movies past. Times, Sunday Times
Both artists are skilled storytellers, able to use a few deftly chosen images to render snapshots of their own autobiographies.
Judging from the first few episodes he appears a natural storyteller, making radio the perfect medium. Times, Sunday Times
She was a wonderful storyteller. Times, Sunday Times
If you want to be a storyteller, be an author, be a novelist, be a writer, don't be a film director.
He was a great character and a marvellous storyteller and will be sadly missed by his family, neighbours and many friends.
I take an entirely different approach to it, and I say any decent photojournalist is a good storyteller, and they're probably not too bad technically. Archive 2005-01-01
The story has a tribal storyteller style to it and is almost ritualistic in places - what prompted this?
A brilliantly emotional book by a master storyteller. The Sun
This year's bash will see storytellers leading tours to the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, telling tales in castles, museums, gardens, glasshouses, libraries, farms and galleries.
But could those early storytellers have actually been feeling their way around the idea of orthogenesis, i.e., spontaneous birth, where life has the innate ability to move linearly? ScreenTalk
I watched people sit spellbound for hours, compelled to listen to the storytellers' tales. Christianity Today
Centuries after storytellers' imaginations first sent Persian rugs airborne, a Japanese astronaut has demonstrated a real flying carpet aboard the international space station.
Contemporary storytellers have developed an attraction to anti-heroes - protagonists who accomplish important things without the ennobling qualities of traditional heroes.
During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller.
They were not discountenanced by the critical argument that a storyteller or a poet who has something to say does not need an artist to help him say it.
The storytellers are converging on the heart of Ireland on the mountainside, glens, waterfalls, ancient raths that are all located in the idyllic surrounds of the Slieve Bloom mountains that straddle both Laois and Offaly.
A chance to see the veteran folkie and accomplished storyteller. Times, Sunday Times
It seems to us so extraordinary, yet the storyteller does not blink an eyelid.
Each story is different in that it is "editorialized" to fit the needs to the storyteller, which is usually to blame the others and preserve self. Ochuk's blog
Her physical energy and humour are palpable, her voice a mellifluous tool with which she weaves tale upon tale, until one loses track of time in the hands of a master storyteller.
Notice, too, that like good storytellers these advocates embellish the tale with some interesting exaggerations.
Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Book summary
I never got into the new stuff, the GF was a Storyteller in the Cam, and had bought me a membership to try and get me to try the LARP of the new world. while the settings commingle better they feel stale to me, and I never could get into them White Wolf – Dead Yet? « Geek Related
Here are acrobats, storytellers, letter writers, snake charmers and teeth pullers.
A troupe of talented dancers, storytellers and musicians will take centre stage in Killarney this week in order to drum up support for needy communities in Venezuela.
By definition, the traditional storytellers were not leaders, much less messiahs.
Join other artists, musicians, storytellers, church leaders, church planters, theologians, and community advocates.
He has a good eye for the dramatic or touching vignette and is a superb storyteller.
Another storyteller outlined "paraphilia," an obscure word used in the New York penal code to denote all sexual perversions and how it was applied to him in his divorce proceedings. Gamut of Lives Viewed Under A Microscope
These people - artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers - will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.
To be a really good storyteller, it helps to do different voices for different characters. The Sun
The storyteller was embarking on another journey. Times, Sunday Times
Commandments broken in a general smash; such rogueries and knaveries as no storyteller could invent; such murders and robberies as Thurtell or Turpin scarce ever perpetrated; — were by my informant accurately remembered, and freely related, respecting his nearest kindred, to any one who chose to hear him. The Virginians
A born storyteller, she transformed the paths and flower beds into imaginary pleasure domes for the benefit of her siblings. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Its central story – a boy who must enter a magical realm and defeat malevolent forces on his storyteller father's behalf – is repeated in Luka and the Fire of Life, which has been written for Rushdie's younger son, Milan, who rather understandably wanted his own book. Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
From some fifty feet away, the original storyteller said he had pelted several stones at the presumably expired alien thing.
Yoshimoto, however, is a legitimate storyteller, and avoids the overwrought sentiment that forces a reader to cry unwilling tears.
Yoshimoto, however, is a legitimate storyteller, and avoids the overwrought sentiment that forces a reader to cry unwilling tears.
The whole city seems to gather here to take in an incredible range of entertainment, including tooth pullers, snake charmer, musicians and Arabic storytellers.
A family area pandered to the younger element of festival goers, with clowns, jesters and storytellers all providing entertainment for children and the young at heart.
A smaller instrumentation is adopted with English Horn obbligato (as if a shadow of the storyteller). In Part II, the singer 'jumps out' from being a storyteller and becomes the fisherman himself.
From trapeze artists to storytellers, puppeteers to video artists, Bradford's arts scene is thriving thanks to millions of pounds worth of funding over the past year.
Great storyteller, really fun to be with. Times, Sunday Times
He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read. Times, Sunday Times
Musicians, storytellers and dancers will assemble for a night of pisogery, pookas and boogie men.
She works in prisons to raise awareness about restorative justice and for some years has been with the Forgiveness Project as a storyteller and facilitator. Times, Sunday Times
In the finest tradition of Irish storytellers he beckons the audience to walk with him.
Again, he was a natural storyteller. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
The storytellers seem to cut loose, the organisers are relaxed and the audience wants to be sure it hears every syllable before the festival ends for another year.
This is the work of a very fine storyteller indeed, one who has already won prizes for her fiction and doubtless will go on to win more. Times, Sunday Times
Storytellers and puppeteers will also entertain them.
Poet and storyteller both fabulate in order to produce true pictures of reality - reality as it is, or as it seems to them to be. Eyvind Johnson - Banquet Speech
Farmer has many gifts as a storyteller, but one of the simplest and best is her habit of teasing us. Times, Sunday Times
“Consummate storyteller Jeffries pens another title in the School for Heiresses series that is destined to captivate readers with its sensuality and wonderfully enchanting plot.” How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
His fascination with the subtleties of human behaviour makes him a good storyteller.
The boy boxers, no less than the storytellers, acrobats, dancers and musicians, are, to this extent, part of a total experience.
John Kani, a Tony Award-winning actor and playwright, is the storyteller. 'White Lion' Film Highlights Trophy Hunting In South Africa (PHOTOS)
The gleesome threesome responsible for this book include two storytellers and an artist. Review of the Day: The Talking Vegetables
I watched people sit spellbound for hours, compelled to listen to the storytellers' tales. Christianity Today
He often treads that fine line between homage and outright cinematic thievery, but he is a master technical craftsman and storyteller whose work is almost universally a joy to watch and immerse yourself into.
The Bush administration, of course, revealed themselves as master storytellers — setting up heroes and villians and themes and making this war a fait accompli from the moment the buildings began to crumble on 9/11. Fiction is Stranger Than Truth: Over There and the Narratives of Iraq | PopPolitics.com
Handke would say that they weren't his either: he sees himself as a reteller, not a storyteller. Shelfari:
Singers, musicians, dancers and storytellers from 28 Bulgarian regions will take part in this year's festival.
In the early days they had a clockwork tape recorder, and sat under trees with storytellers and bottles of rum.
The children listened enthralled as the storyteller unfolded her tale.
It's about a nomadic storyteller in India named Bram who's preoccupied with Dracula.
The sessions are conducted by experienced storytellers and are run between 11 am and noon each Thursday during the months of July and August at the library in Lyster Square.
I enjoy connecting people with stories and ideas, first in bookstores, now through library catalogs and supporting local storytellers and authors.
He's a gifted storyteller and this is a must-see show. Times, Sunday Times
Ostensibly an account of two serial murderers, In The Night Room morphs into a brooding rumination on the storyteller's craft.
To these votaries, he is variously the perennial storyteller, the kindly sage, the gentle teacher, the maker of auspicious symbols, and the peripatetic gardener of images.
Talking to her, watching her energy shift and flow, you can feel her hunger for connection, the drive that has made her, as she passingly called herself, ‘a storyteller.’
He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read. Times, Sunday Times
Given a great script and cast, Steven Soderbergh is unsurpassed as a storyteller.
It's about a nomadic storyteller in India named Bram who's preoccupied with Dracula.
The conscious use and manipulation of frame and structure allows the storyteller to engage the audience more deeply in the story.
Her skill as both a storyteller and a songsmith suggests an aversion to short-cuts and the easy way out.
The family gathering becomes a colourful union of storytellers with a series of invented and recollected tales. Times, Sunday Times
He is a master storyteller and his long-term memory is unblemished. Times, Sunday Times
We find ourselves in a world where God is improviser, storyteller, weaver, imaginer, dramatist.
Chloe of the Midnight Storytellers will amuse the guests by recounting tales from myth and legend, as well as adaptations of literary short stories.
Snuggled away in other cottages, you'll find chestnut sellers and storytellers, mummers and madrigal singers - to really get into the spirit of the thing, you could wassail your way from door to door.
He's a gifted storyteller and this is a must-see show. Times, Sunday Times
He makes no disparaging comments about religion (of the kind that are sadly too common in the writings of other contemporary scientific storytellers). Christianity Today
28That history is narrated from the point of view of the storyteller. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
Cole then takes center stage, working the song fully with a sassy vocal in which she shifts from storyteller to testifier with a knack for transforming the mood from moments of tension to the exhilaration of temptation.
To these votaries, he is variously the perennial storyteller, the kindly sage, the gentle teacher, the maker of auspicious symbols, and the peripatetic gardener of images.
The storyteller was embarking on another journey. Times, Sunday Times
The children listened with rapt attention to the old storyteller as he captivated their minds with a tale from his past - one that Adam himself knew a good deal about.
Thanks to all the musicians, dancers, singers, storytellers and poets.
While this may have been so at point of entry, they have certainly matured into storytellers, weaving tales with a sense of theatre.
After the obnoxious announcer, who clearly wished he had been bestowed with the honour of actually being counted as a storyteller and not simply the emcee, I was not in a mood most receptive to storytelling.
The activities continue even at night with moonlit campfire tales by a Maldivan storyteller or guided stargazing. TravelDailyNews.com
CORVALLIS - For Seattle storyteller Pat Peterson, being one of three featured artists at this week's seventh annual Tcha Tee Man Wi Storytelling Festival in Corvallis is a bit of a homecoming. Undefined
What if they just aren't a very good storyteller? Times, Sunday Times
He is a storyteller with an instinct for adventure, humour and darkness and light in the arena of family entertainment rooted in the battle between good and evil.
The company is helping to send magicians, musicians, puppeteers, storytellers and clowns throughout the year.
The company is helping to send magicians, musicians, puppeteers, storytellers and clowns throughout the year.
He was a husband, father, farmer, sawyer, commercial fisherman, quarryman, storyteller and, every now and then, beer drinker.
Contemporary storytellers have developed an attraction to anti-heroes - protagonists who accomplish important things without the ennobling qualities of traditional heroes.
Thomas Kitts writes about Ray Davies's one-man show, which was originally called 20th Century Man, before being retitled Storyteller.
The Dock Museum is hosting a day of seasonal yarns and tall tales with renowned Lakeland storyteller Taffy Thomas on Saturday, December 18.
He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream. Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The humorous storyteller's strategy, as Twain wrote, is to feign innocence so as to trip up the audience's. The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
When she speaks, and she is a dramatic storyteller, her voice seems modulated to correspond to the mood of the moment with an exacting precision.
A born storyteller, she transformed the paths and flower beds into imaginary pleasure domes for the benefit of her siblings. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
I have often heard artists credit their grandparents or parents who were potters or carvers, muralists or weavers, traditional healers, praise singers or storytellers.
So for instance, the lyre bird is the storyteller of the bush, not only because it doesn't have a voice of its own, but because it keeps the law.
He was a conservationist, a wry observer of human behaviour, a voracious reader, a great storyteller, a fearless reviewer.
No wonder, he is a natural storyteller. Times, Sunday Times
He is also a great storyteller. The Sun
Magic is a running thread throughout, from storytellers in travelling canoes and a door that leads to strange adventures, to a Snow Man and a massive zoetrope and the Ladies Of The Light, dancing high up in the trees. This week's new events
From trapeze artists to storytellers, puppeteers to video artists, Bradford's arts scene is thriving thanks to millions of pounds worth of funding over the past year.
Should we call the hapless storyteller an anecdope? Word Fugitives
I had the great pleasure of meeting Stan recently - he is a terrific conversationalist, storyteller, poet, critic and troubadour.
A few more years and a tradition where Seventeenth Century poets, Mediaeval storytellers, Fathers of the Church, even Neoplatonic philosophers have left their traces in whole poems or fragmentary thoughts and isolated images will have vanished. Later Articles and Reviews
The club is up and running now for six months and provides an outlet for singers, poets, storytellers and as a wide range of musicians who perform contemporary as well as traditional styles.
Join two of Ireland's finest storytellers recounting humorous and melancholy tales of Celtic Ireland.
Weavers, potters, storytellers, jewellery-makers, woodworkers and ironsmiths are still part of the village community.
Friedman and Fuchs also provide a handy description of the elements of "stability" against which most innovative writers are rebelling: "Plot linearity that implies a story's purposeful forward movement; a single, authoritative storyteller; well-motivated characters interacting in recognizable social patterns; the crucial conflict deterring the protagonist from the ultimate goal; the movement to closure .... Experimental Fiction
Although a dormitory storyteller at school, my grandfather veered away from fantasy as he grew up. Times, Sunday Times
He was a true polymath and at the same time a virtuoso storyteller. Times, Sunday Times
He makes no disparaging comments about religion (of the kind that are sadly too common in the writings of other contemporary scientific storytellers). Christianity Today
S. Bear Bergman is an author of two books (Butch Is a Noun, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You) and three award-winning solo stage shows, a storyteller, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Speakeasy with S. Bear Bergman Tonight! (September 1st) « in other words [a portland feminist and queer bookstore and blog]
He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read. Times, Sunday Times
Drew is a good storyteller, and he gets fine performances from his cast. Times, Sunday Times
The master storyteller has been seduced by the lure of technology.
He remains above all an immensely capable and uncompromising storyteller, fixed on extremist subjects.
In West African culture, tradition dictates that singers and storytellers come from the griot caste, and Maal was born into the fisherman's caste in 1952.
Thankfully, it has fostered a realisation that everyone, no matter how big or small, can be equally enraptured by the art of the great storytellers.
The storyteller was embarking on another journey. Times, Sunday Times
Both were natural writers and storytellers and perfect foils for each other. Times, Sunday Times
He was a truly marvellous storyteller.
Issues are raised, disagreement ensues but then the matter is dropped, though perhaps one of the storytellers sighs and wishes things had been otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
On most evenings there are special presentations by distinguished writers, musicians, dancers and storytellers.
The night will welcome musicians, storytellers and singers from all over the region, all welcome to entertain the crowd in their own inimitable way.
He looks like another one of them storytellers. The Sun
And I think sports writers, as a whole, are entertaining storytellers, interesting people and underrated journalists.
Though she did not graduate with a specific distinction, she was known as a masterful storyteller. Ahead Of Her Time « AAUW Dialog
He is the quintessential storyteller, who likes to write his tale and have it read.
Our poets and storytellers are the modern-day griots who speak the history and carry on the culture with dazzling tongue.
This begins what becomes an obsessive quest, as Ronan - from adolescence to manhood - tracks the storyteller's whereabouts across the lanes of Ireland.
He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read. Times, Sunday Times
His fascination with the subtleties of human behaviour makes him a good storyteller.
Bringing her own rocking chair and a footstool so each child had a place to sit, each granny spun a 10-minute tale of her choice before the youngsters swapped places to hear from another storyteller.
I enjoy connecting people with stories and ideas, first in bookstores, now through library catalogs and supporting local storytellers and authors.
A born storyteller, she transformed the paths and flower beds into imaginary pleasure domes for the benefit of her siblings. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Given his enormous and undimmed skills as a storyteller, that could have been a brilliant book.
Although a dormitory storyteller at school, my grandfather veered away from fantasy as he grew up. Times, Sunday Times
There were also storytellers, a dance teacher and a clay modelling expert to add spice to the children's activities.
It seems to us so extraordinary, yet the storyteller does not blink an eyelid.
It is much less lonely than writing for months with just me and my cat and it's wonderful to have feedback from a master storyteller. Times, Sunday Times
Gladwell presents himself as much more than a storyteller.
He's an excellent storyteller and a phenomenally detailed artist, but his work lacks a certain dynamic that makes it stick out in my mind.
My father was a great storyteller and spun many tales. Times, Sunday Times
Big-budget Spielberg is a warm and sentimental storyteller, the master of the grand scale, the prince of popcorn entertainment.
The fire crackles, sweet wood smoke scents the air, a soft breeze kisses my cheek and the storyteller weaves a spell of enchantment.
There were also storytellers, a dance teacher and a clay modelling expert to add spice to the children's activities.
The point of the book is not that all marketers are all liars, but that they're storytellers.
The faculty already had great computer scientists, artists, musicians, and storytellers.
Although a dormitory storyteller at school, my grandfather veered away from fantasy as he grew up. Times, Sunday Times
Piercy has a fabulous imagination and is a gifted storyteller.
In his 1926 book, Crooke included Hutton's tale as an example of disease riddance by passing a sealed container of contagion; he omitted the Naga storyteller's passing reference to the gift of clothing.
Kathak rhymes with "attack" means "storyteller," and so Kathak dance is a dance that carries a story. Music, Ho
Singers and storytellers, the entertainers of those times, included dance in their performances, and created the rudiments of modern theatre, where dialogue takes precedence.
The gargoyle was a born storyteller, and he'd rarely had as appreciative an audience as Hosea. Spirits White As Lightning
The man with the shears eschews the term barber, preferring either artist or sculptor, but his role at Truth and Soul Black Stars is even more expansive: adviser, storyteller, protector, father figure to fatherless youths, friend. Chicagotribune.com -
The storyteller was embarking on another journey. Times, Sunday Times

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