raconteur

Hemingway, ever the raconteur, regaled the cadre with stories, matching them drink for drink of this local elixir until the nights blurred into memory.

“I became a chutney cosmopolite,” he wrote, “and a raconteur of relish recipes.”

Ever the raconteur, Copeland is taking the speaking tour to Europe this spring and fall.

Driven by a strong, distinctive raconteur, “Demon Copperhead” paints a nuanced picture of an Appalachia disparaged by others in America.

Only Hackman could shift like that, from raconteur to angel of death.