interlocution

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But Lyndon Baines Johnson, in his TV interlocution with Walter Cronkite, gave as full a rendition as immediate history is apt to hear.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simple, and yet eminently dramatic in scene, character, and interlocution, George Eliot has painted pictures from middle and common life, and is thus the exponent of a large humanity.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

In the commencement of the Bible, after a brief prologue, the curtain rises, and we, as spectators, look in upon a process of interlocution.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.

From Talks on Talking by Kleiser, Grenville

It is destitute of the allegorical element, and like some other productions which are to follow, is a mere dramatic interlocution, lightly and inartificially constructed, with little or no plot.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew