Sentences with word «raconteur»

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One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen, Spalding Gray, came together with one of cinema's boldest image - makers, Oscar - winning director Steven Soderbergh, for Gray's Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name (cowritten with Renée Shafransky).

Altmejd is a sci - fi, fairy tale raconteur who has taken his audience out of this world and back — back into the depths of unknown yet familiar bodies.

Hanks found an amiable raconteur in Solomon, now 90 but sharp and focused on the business that was his life.

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Even more memorably we come to know Irwin, still a charming raconteur at 92.

A regular guest on Morning Joe, he is known as a skilled raconteur with a depth of knowledge about politics, religion, and current affairs.

She is a natural raconteur and mimic.

Master raconteur and author of the upcoming book The Storyteller's Secret, Carmine Gallo talks about struggle, persuasion and the importance of sharing stories.

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But I can say of my devil that he is, to my mind, a very gifted raconteur.

Ross is a skilled raconteur and proficient in the local vernacular of the Los Angeles region.

Damon Runyon, the great raconteur, coined the term Cinderella Man for Braddock.

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.

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Influential Los Angeles artist and raconteur Larry Johnson (Art BFA 82, MFA 84) has a full - scale survey of his work on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles through Sept. 6.

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We know from Edmund Gosse, Garrison Keillor and other raconteurs that many a long winter night was shortened by spirited debates in front of the fireplace over the correct interpretation of the seven seals of Revelation, or the exact number of days till the reestablishment of Christ's rule over Israel.

McCourt has spent most of his unpublished adult life living in the shadow of his brother Malachy, a New York celebrity known as a hard - drinking, Irish literary raconteur, a modernist stage - Irish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

To reinforce the role a genuine bartender plays — as friend, entertainer, historian and talented raconteur — entrants will be asked to tell the «story» behind their cocktail's creation via a video submission.

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.

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Cox, by nature of the character he is playing, steals most of the limelight, lurching drunkenly from cynic to heartbroken to engaging raconteur.

Jake Johannsen is a self - confessed raconteur of weird stories.

Galileo comes across as a masterful raconteur; his discussions of recent astronomical findings in particular evoke an electrifying sense of discovery.

A sexy raconteur, you keep your «targets» spellbound with witty banter, fascinating stories, and even a few head games.

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.

Day - Lewis is superb as the title character — slouching posture, dry wit, a steady raconteur, authoritative presence, embattled emotions — but the real treat is the way Day - Lewis conveys an aura of respect for a man who had fierce enemies, even within his own party.

Spending time with Dern is a dizzying and fascinating experience, because the man is a born raconteur who can follow a story about his old pal Jack Nicholson with one about how Quentin Tarantino prepared him for a one - minute role in «Django Unchained» by reciting a feature - quality backstory to his character.

As murderer Howard Howe, veteran actor Parks (also in Smith's 2011 «Red State») dutifully runs the gamut from stately raconteur to mush - mouthed hick (in an interminable flashback) to full - on wackadoodle.

Barker is a lively raconteur.

This is the American Dream with any ideas of decorum and esteem set aside, the unseemly and anointed truth lays glistening, astonishingly exposed, betrayed by the truth - tellers and foul - mouthed raconteurs.

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.

May 3, 2018 • The 71 - year - old raconteur returns to the old songs and inhabits the guises of death - haunted bluesmen to speak to the issues of the current era.

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.

A consummate raconteur, Fancher recounts episodes from his remarkable life — including romantic misadventures with silver - screen stars, wayward acts of chivalry, jealousy, and friendship — matched with a parallel world of film and TV footage wherein Fancher plays cowboys, killers, fops, cads, and the occasional hero.

San Francisco filmmaker Terry Zwigoff's first cinematic effort, the 1985 Louie Bluie, is a wry, ribald, and magical portrait of the country - blues string band player and irrepressible raconteur Howard Armstrong (a.k.a. Louie Bluie).

Sherman's great, still a sharp raconteur at 87; Giacchino's got a long way to go before he has that kind of gravitas.

A forgotten genius, Bernstein also proves an unsung raconteur in enthralling stories that place him at the centre of a real - life Sunset Boulevard or on the front lines of Korea; he commands the screen in lingering close - ups and holds court with equally - captive audiences of confrères and disciples, despite his professed stage fright.

Danny Says, then, ends on a muted whimper of a note that one doesn't expect given that its subject is such an immensely entertaining raconteur.

Fanning, a better raconteur than Refn (despite his Herzogian cadences), comes across as extremely easy - going, brushing off things like seared contact lenses and blood - stained skin as minor inconveniences.

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.

Bowers, with the vigor of someone decades younger is an unparalleled raconteur.

Based on a novella by writer and raconteur Jonathan Ames, the story is about Joe (Joaquin Pheonix), a veteran with PTSD, who tracks down and...