raconteur
Example Sentences
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Ever the raconteur, Madonna balked: “I don’t know, how much longer can you go on doing what you’re doing? Don’t limit me.”
From Salon
Mr. Man is knowledgeable and well-traveled, but as a historian he is more of a raconteur than a scholar.
All seem to use the word differently than in its usual application to novelists, playwrights and raconteurs.
Like the raconteur at the table, Mr. Winchester is masterly but almost too fluent.
But Capote, a lively raconteur in life and on the page, takes his time in setting the scene.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
