raconteur
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He was an engaging, funny and self-deprecating raconteur, ready with the quotable quip and the off-the-record gossip, which always assured him of an audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
But Capote, a lively raconteur in life and on the page, takes his time in setting the scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Pierre Schoeman tells a story from his youth in South Africa, a natural-born raconteur in adulthood speaking of the adventurous spirit of his 13-year-old self.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
“I became a chutney cosmopolite,” he wrote, “and a raconteur of relish recipes.”
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025
Gregarious by nature, Hall proved to be a skillful raconteur with a caustic Kiwi wit.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
All seem to use the word differently than in its usual application to novelists, playwrights and raconteurs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
The artists who made them have been reduced here, in what may be this show’s only true insult, into mere raconteurs of women’s lives.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Barry Humphries was described as one of the greatest raconteurs and stand-up comedians of his age.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023
My dad was a sailor and one of the great raconteurs of all time.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2020
There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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