| He was a famous raconteur remembered for many performances of his dialogue, which he spoke with his daughter, on the nature of mathematics. |
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| To these might be added his reputation as a bon viveur and raconteur par excellence. |
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| My brother, being the great raconteur that he is, would entertain us with stories of his naughty antics from school, then later, from work. |
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| It is always a delightful experience to eat there, and Louis' presence as a raconteur just adds to it all. |
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| Tiernan performs with the casual ease of a natural raconteur, but the appearance belies an almost fretful perfectionism. |
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| Noel Coward, the multi-talented British playwright, actor, songwriter raconteur, first visited Jamaica in 1944 on a two week holiday. |
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| And in an age when hairdressing salons are a bit like assembly lines it's refreshing to meet a real raconteur and bon viveur. |
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| I ignored whatever looked like folk motifs, material of the rural raconteur. |
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| Sir Peter Ustinov was a great raconteur and notable humanitarian, but don't forget about his acting says a noted film historian. |
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| The trouble is, Dawson was a born raconteur, and like most raconteurs he sometimes embellished his stories to amuse his listeners. |
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| He is an engaging raconteur, and the narrative offers a wealth of information on both past and present conditions in this part of the world. |
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| She was a first-rate raconteur who delivered stories with dry, sometimes biting wit. |
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| The actress, radio star and raconteur has total recall of a rich life that goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. |
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| Cleaves writes about desperate men, losers and failures, all from the perspective of a bar room raconteur. |
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| Gone is the raconteur and court jester rolled into one big loveable package. |
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| Apparently, he's a hilarious raconteur on stage, and indeed, the album could use a bit of comic relief in moments when the drama gets slightly overwrought. |
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| I remember hearing a British raconteur telling a story a few years ago about a friend of his who had been late for work. |
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| His amoral raconteur is the perfect foil for Kinnear's chillingly selfish dullard. |
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| He has proved to be a brilliant raconteur able to reflect revealingly on his work of 20 years ago, but these are retrospective observations sharpened up in the telling. |
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| Arno's world view can seem almost autistic, and yet he is a wonderful raconteur of daily life. |
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| In Place Royale, the talented raconteur and three musicians will be accompanying the unusual sounds from these enormous transient instruments. |
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| Otto Tucker is an educator, popular historian and raconteur who has made significant contributions to the cultural development of his province. |
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| Like Beck, Jones is a raconteur with a penchant for dramatizing things to comic effect. |
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| A gifted raconteur, he was born to talk, to entertain, to lose the plot, to start again, to regale you with tales from one of the fullest lives a human being could ever live. |
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| He was an active and knowledgeable gardener and he remained a highly competitive bridge player and an excellent raconteur of amusing medical reminiscences. |
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| He rarely wrote letters, conducting his business on the telephone or, more often, holding court in public houses, where he was an unrivalled raconteur. |
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| He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse. |
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| And his friends knew him as a highly entertaining mimic and raconteur. |
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| She describes him as a raconteur and voracious reader of history and current affairs. |
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| He is a raconteur extraordinaire and an interview with the dogged reporter can rapidly turn into a delicious gabfest. |
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| Our teacher is this generous renegade, a raconteur and wit also who succeeds in getting us to read Beowolf. |
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| The patrons of the Academie are a roll call of the great and good, including Michel David-Weill, of Lazards Bank, and Sir Peter Ustinov, the polyglot actor and raconteur. |
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| His warmth, good humour and skills as a raconteur were legendary to many. |
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| He was a flute player, a singer of old Scottish songs, a raconteur, bon vivant, and a scholar. |
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| Like his father, he was a raconteur and a barfly. |
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| He was an avid rock climber, raconteur, cyclist and Trekker. |
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| Everyone round the table knew after the fifth or sixth reference that it could only be the Spice Girl variety, and the evening became a contest between the raconteur and the rest of us as to who would blink first. |
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| Dear friend, music maker, raconteur, lover, laugher, cook, lighthouse. |
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| This, it turns out, is the bulging vocabulary of the self-taught man, lifted from classic novels and period film scripts and delivered with the rich, rolling gusto of a born raconteur. |
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| Mr. Oliver, now in his 50s, has developed a cult following as a spell-casting raconteur who sounds as if he learned to speak in the crypt of a Hammer horror movie. |
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| Having always excelled as a wit and raconteur, he often composed by assembling phrases, bons mots and witticisms into a longer, cohesive work. |
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| Before embarking on his extraordinary solo career as a singer, comedian, raconteur and actor, Senator Lapointe had great success as part of the duo Les Jérolas. |
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| Guests at the ceremony were entertained by guest speaker, shadow foreign secretary William Hague, who amply demonstrated his ability as a raconteur and anecdotalist. |
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| A raconteur and xenophile of note, he is an avid marathoner and cyclist who explores unusual places in his travels on domestic as well as international assignments. |
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| He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer. |
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