(1) In the meantime we had to share the Raconteurs' bus.
(2) This is typical Hampton: down to earth (he insists his only luxury is a yacht soon to be transferred from its mooring in Menorca to the south coast of England) and a good raconteur.
(3) White was losing his voice to a bout of bronchitis at the time, forcing Mosshart to come on stage and sing White's parts with the Raconteurs for the later dates of the tour.
(4) "Malcolm was a fantastic raconteur, with a brilliant and agile creative mind.
(5) He had to be content with the immense joy that he did give, apparently effortlessly; with being the most consistently funny raconteur of his time, recognised as a peer by virtually all other humorists, such as Frank Muir (obituary, January 3 1998), who called him "one of the best-loved people in the world".
(6) · Petrus Alexandrus (Peter Alexander) Ustinov, writer, actor, raconteur, born April 16 1921; died March 28 2004
(7) He was a film producer, satirist, television pioneer, theatre director, raconteur, wit and public speaker of boundless brio and enthusiasm.
(8) Saki, a big-hearted raconteur who runs Byzantium café, told me that you could nuke the whole of Europe and the two things that would survive would be Greeks and cockroaches.
(9) The relaxed, raconteur style of Hector, the old schoolteacher, was adored by the boys.
(10) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
(11) Brendan Benson has played down the possibility of a third Raconteurs album, revealing that although most of the band members live in Nashville, they never get together.
(12) I liked that about it, too.” Both Raconteurs albums debuted in the UK’s top 10 and both were awarded gold sales certificates.
(13) So joyous and immense were the hopes that once rested on the actor, raconteur and humanitarian Sir Peter Ustinov, who has died in Switzerland aged 82, that the final balance-sheet of his life was bound to seem an anticlimax, both to himself and to those who saw the skyrocket of his early talent.
(14) Jack White has resumed working with the Dead Weather, the psychedelic rock band featuring Kills singer Alison Mosshart and members of Queens of the Stone Age and the Raconteurs.
(15) And on bass is Jack Lawrence, recognisable not only as a member of the Raconteurs and Cincinnati-based trio the Greenhornes, but also because of his striking resemblance to the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri.
(16) The private LBJ was, by all accounts, the life of the party: funny, mimic, great sense of humour, wonderful raconteur, just a live wire.
(17) But as a new authorised biography reveals, the outrageous performer and raconteur had melancholy secrets that are only now emerging.
(18) His grandfather's sometimes risqué skills as a raconteur were supplemented by the stories Fo heard from other inhabitants of the villages around Lake Maggiore, in northern Italy, where he lived.
(19) Third Man is the home not just to Jack White's groups, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, but several no-wave and blues artists like Dan Sartain, Mildred and the Mice, and Transit, a group that comprises employees of the Nashville Metro Transit Authority.
(20) She’s an incredibly gifted as writer and raconteur,” says Cadel, “but I would like to have seen her do more acting.
Storyteller
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Example Sentences:
(1) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(2) Because we're a species of storytellers, we find movie-plot threats uniquely compelling .
(3) Second, the probation officer who had prepared my pre-sentence investigation report – the official version of a defendant’s story – prevented me from participating in the storytelling and then lied to the court, claiming I had refused to contribute.
(4) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
(5) Philip French championed Boyle's career from the outset, describing his debut feature film, Shallow Grave , as "a good piece of storytelling... Hitchcock would have admired its ruthlessness and cruel humour."
(6) That brings us back to games, where this kind of storytelling – some linear narrative but then a lot of additional storytelling coming from non-player characters' dialogue – is par for the course.
(7) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
(8) Pratchett is a very smart man, a gifted writer, and understands as well as any philosopher the power of storytelling and the problems humans face in making sense of their lives and the world they live in,” South said.
(9) "He was also a terrific storyteller whose life had provided no end of material.
(10) There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in True Detective , and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling.
(11) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
(12) Libraries held free storytelling and drop-in face painting sessions to promote the project.
(13) A spokesman for the producers said viewers of the semi-final had seen that winner Jules O’Dwyer’s act involved several dogs who participated alongside Matisse to help perform her “unique mixture of dog agility and storytelling”.
(14) It's a cavalcade of the bizarre that might leave lesser storytellers struggling for clarity.
(15) It’s rainy and people are saying the same things over and over again.” Unlike many other shows on the fringe, which prize storytelling above big laughs, there will be no theme to the show, no confessional narrative or autobiographical arc.
(16) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(17) If all wars ultimately find their own Homer, this brutal, piercing, sometimes darkly funny collection stakes Klay’s claim for consideration as the quintessential storyteller of America’s Iraq conflict,” the judges wrote of the book.
(18) Now shared widely on Isis social media accounts , the letter is part of a storytelling tradition that has developed among militants from Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus , who have travelled to fight in the Middle East.
(19) Creative solutions like co-production can be part of the picture to solve our childcare challenges, but can’t be a substitute for the major reforms to our childcare policy and funding needed to provide the volume of high-quality, affordable places that parents need.” In terms of the practicalities for working parents, Schofield adds that “most parents who choose childcare do work and may not be time-rich in this way.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bruce, who has worked at Grasshoppers for four years, puts his acting background to good use during storytelling time.
(20) "EL James's characters and vivid storytelling require a director who is willing to take risks and push the envelope where needed, and Sam is a natural fit."