Sentences with phrase «as raconteur»

Neck of the Woods sees Turner Prize - winning artist Douglas Gordon and celebrated pianist Hélène Grimaud create a portrait of the wolf in a collision of visual art, music and theatre, with Charlotte Rampling as the raconteur.

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And he uses his not inconsiderable skills as a raconteur to put a whole new spin on the events recounted in le Carré's 1963 bestseller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.»

Irving's vanity is a deception tied to a yen for recreating himself as the raconteur he'd lo... more

In its first section, as raconteur and adventurer Howard Howe (Michael Parks) carefully lays and baits a trap in darkest Manitoba for narcissistic, two - timing celebrity podcaster Wallace Bryton (Justin Long), cruel humour and tension build together towards a surrealistic Human Walruspede.

Fellow astronomers — and generations of Harvard undergraduates — have also long appreciated him as a raconteur of exceptional eloquence, so it is hard to imagine anyone better suited to give us the inside story on the new discoveries.

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McCourt has spent most of his unpublished adult life living in the shadow of his brother Malachy, a New York celebrity known as a hard - drinking, Irish literary raconteur, a modernist stage - Irish act of the type perfected by Brendan Behan.

His two splendid books of memoirs show him to be a brave and decent citizen of his country and his universities, as well as a good «natured raconteur of folly who doesn't mind turning his wit against himself.

A loquacious raconteur endowed with total recall, he is able to talk for what seems almost ever about such long - forgotten players as Moses Solomon, «The Rabbi of Swat,» a slugger the Giants brought up in the»20s to lure Jewish fans into the Polo Grounds, and one - armed Daily, a Cleveland pitcher back in the»80s who used to get into fights on the field and chop away at his adversaries with the stump of his left arm.

Meg immediately commands the attentions of Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore), a notorious raconteur and rake who idles away his days and nights in the company of rich cronies, including Tuppy (Tom Wilkinson), more formally known as Lord Augustus.

Smith acts, as you might imagine, the raconteur / provocateur, teasing Grant about her schooling and aspirations for before - the - camera work.

Director, writer, pulp fiction author, raconteur and all - around maverick character Samuel Fuller was as proud of his military service as any of his artistic accomplishments.

It's edited as an extended monologue, delivered by the film director (and, it transpires, ace raconteur) Brian De Palma in his semi high - pitched, lightly nasal drawl.

Anyway, Wesley and Winikoff prove able, energetic raconteurs (going so far as to provide the hidden backstory for the piece), and Galluzzo does a great job of keeping the flow going.

As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tributAs beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tributas he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute.

From asides to an unseen editor and DP Michael Chapman, to the referral to pre-production notes on anecdotes he wants to capture on film, said deconstruction reaches its peak as Scorsese reveals as much about the rehearsed nature of storytelling as he does his magnetic raconteur, and by extension the very notion of documentary truth.

Sam will be remembered as a warm - hearted and generous teacher, scholar, friend, and raconteur.

Called «Tall Boy» by some, Morris at thirty - five rivaled Washington in height and bearing, and was valued by hostesses as a bachelor and a charming raconteur.

I'm also a traditionally published author, recovering podcaster, inveterate raconteur, voracious reader, instructor in the Russian Martial Art known as Systema, Husband and Father.

This Homeric and Tolkien-esque raconteur is known for reweaving and reinventing a master narrative based on the supposition that France and England had united as «Frengland.»

The artist readily admits that he still enjoys dancing with the hottest women in Florida clubs as well as chatting with people who, rightly, find him to be a fascinating raconteur.

Writ large in scrawling loose paint and charcoal, Bernstein's wry engagement with text — Uncle Sam Balls Vietnam and Gets V.D. not V.C. (Venereal Disease not Viet Cong)-- evoked the crude gonzo aesthetics of artists such as R. Crumb and Wally Hedrick, presaging the later linguistic permutations of raconteurs like Jean - Michel Basquiat and Raymond Pettibone.

The production, Neck of the Woods, will be a fusion of visual art, theatre and music presenting a portrait of the wolf, with Charlotte Rampling appearing as the show's «raconteur».

Raconteur, essayist, and critic Fran Lebowitz will be featured as this year's Visionary speaker at the New Museum.

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