spiel
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Mr. Brady pulled off Don Profondo’s patter song “Medaglie incomparabili,” a tongue-twisting list of precious objects, as an auctioneer’s spiel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
With “The Phoenician Scheme,” Anderson is celebrating the art of the spiel, the capitalism that artists are supposed to be against.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
He has long integrated assertions about a third term into his political spiel.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
"The spiel that I'm reading from people saying how off it we are. We won two games on the bounce and you're upset about it, I don't get it."
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
Atala, the woman who runs training, begins her spiel right on time, unfazed by the poor attendance.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Wang now spends his time trying to help other victims of similar spiels.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The playoff music, meant to signal winners to wrap up their spiels, began playing more than halfway into Brody’s speech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
The stray references in these spiels are still hot, such as the one to “John Lovitz” and “SNL when it was good.”
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2024
He was hired to do sleight-of-hand tricks at a shop in Manhattan and later had his first writing credit, a 1946 booklet, “The Encyclopedia of Patter,” inspired by magicians’ onstage spiels.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
He spiels off two or three stickfuls and then stops.
From The House of Torchy by Arthur William Brown
Moses sipped, while his team spieled tasting notes that reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows."
From Time Magazine Archive
"You can't lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review.
From Time Magazine Archive
One source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clifton's voice came to me as he spieled his directions for making it dance, and I held it by the feet and stretched its neck, seeing it crumple and slide forward.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a few hours he would be on a campus stage singing his songs and spieling his narrative jazz poetry to an audience of college kids.
From Time Magazine Archive
Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling.
From Time Magazine Archive
After spieling off a few tips about grip and stance, he belts out a few balls.
From Time Magazine Archive
No more of his triumphs he lilted, like Spartacus spieling in Rome; the steel hearted warrior wilted, and followed his conquerer home.
From Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason
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