causerie
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Whatever was the nature of His Majesty's causerie he arrived at Santander seemingly more spruce and sprightly than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Similarly, when he turned for a too brief space to literary criticism, he proved himself the master of all living men in the art of the literary causerie.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
This could no longer--it was impossible--be the mere inspiration of the moment, and only a harmless causerie.
From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen
The first three would make a very good group for a twenty-page causerie.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
I am sure that a causerie by Sainte-Beuve often sends a reader, with a zest he had never found unaided, to a book he had never opened unadvised.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the urbane veteran of perhaps 100 diplomatic causeries in the last ten months, Mr. Davis could afford to ignore the implication of naivete.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is a good piece of special pleading, an excellent piece of writing, and one of the very best and most consummate literary causeries in English.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
Look here, Helena," he said, "I've been feeling I was a bit of a brute about those causeries of yours.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
This volume attempts to be, not a series of causeries on the literary history of France, but a Short History of French Literature.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
