(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.
Witty
Definition:
(n.) Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.
(n.) Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(2) That merriment is not just tankards and quaintness and mimsy Morris dancing, but a witty, angry and tender fire at the centre of Englishness.
(3) Witty's comments came as GSK unveiled lower first half sales and profits, and a further £500m of cost cuts by the end of 2015.
(4) We encourage people to speak up if they have concerns" #gsk July 24, 2013 12.29pm BST Witty says this investigation is "quite different" to the whistleblower claims the company recently investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
(5) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
(6) His works are witty rather than wise, pacey not profound.
(7) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(8) While researching his forthcoming book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps , Brotton sometimes brought up the "one-to-one map" idea, from Borges and Carroll, with people at Google, but they didn't find it particularly witty or intriguing.
(9) But I do try to find the good in everybody," Parton says perkily, and later proves it by describing Sylvester Stallone – her co-star in the deservedly little-seen 1984 film Rhinestone – as "just a nut, but so witty!".
(10) Best known in this country as the author of a large number of witty and provocative books - and as the Reith lecturer in 1966 - Galbraith was professor of economics at Harvard University from 1949 until his retirement in 1975, but was equally well known in the US as a distinguished civil servant and longtime, tireless adviser and campaigner for liberal Democrats and their causes.
(11) Critics who saw Budapest at the Berlin film festival, where it premiered this month, have called it "vibrant and imaginative" , "nimblefooted, witty" , and as a sucker for Anderson's stuff since his early days, I'd agree.
(12) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
(13) Witty backed the prime minister’s efforts to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership.
(14) In an interview with the Observer , Witty said: "While the chief executive of the company could move, maybe the top 20 directors could move, what about the 16,000 people who work for us?
(15) And, in any case, Preston is obviously bright and witty and engaging.
(16) There is something very Avaazian about the crisistunity, I come to think, in that it's borrowed something slick and witty from popular culture and re-purposed it for something which used to be called the Greater Good.
(17) Sometimes, when stood by the bar, caught in the witty back-and-forth between two strange men, it feels like you're out in bad weather without a hat.
(18) Scottish Ballet: The Nutcracker In recent years, Christmas at Scottish Ballet has been defined by Ashley Page’s witty, acerbic re-writes of the 19th century classics.
(19) Seen as a warm and witty liberal, he founded the parliamentary bicycle pool and has earned the moniker the "bicycling baronet" (the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail in 1982).
(20) Witty was optimistic that “ultimately there are going to be some pragmatic decisions made” that would ensure companies were able to attract global talent.