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
He had lived much in Paris, where he studied impressionism and perfected his natural talent for causerie and his inborn preference for the hedonistic view of life.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
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
This work is a literary causerie inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience.
From Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman
We had a great causerie over pictures of home scenes, and of many places in India.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
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
His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society.
From Time Magazine Archive
But their most solemn causeries were upon the vital theme of The American Reputation in Letters.
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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
It may not be literature, the writing of causeries, of Roundabout Papers, of rambling articles “on a broomstick,” and yet again, it may be literature!
From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang
