Someone has to be the raconteur, the one who shares anecdotes in a skillful, amusing and engaging manner.
The raconteur knows how he or she is going to play the others to orchestrate the best repartee.
In the life of a Chinese tourist, guides play an especially prominent role translator, raconteur, and field marshal and Li projected a calm, seasoned air.
But the great curator, like the great raconteur, is always two or three stories or anecdotes ahead of the rest of the table.
Although he was a great raconteur, Duveen does not appear to have been a very inspiring or interesting man, other than when he was working.
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The raconteur, author and comedian, 74, then went on to praise the Prince of Wales, describing him as a man who "really works his ass off".
The poems are believed to have been recited by jongleurs (Old French for entertainers) in castles, marketplaces and at weddings, where a good raconteur would get paid for his skill at entertaining.
More than an iconic American sportswriter, complete with his trademark fedora and stogie, the author of 80-plus books and a member of the Boxing Hall of Fame, Bert was a world-class raconteur and a loyal friend.
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Sachs is a practiced raconteur himself.
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He was always interested in what had been going on with you and he was an incredible teller of stories, a sort of raconteur of spiritualism and wild moments 'weird scenes inside the gold mine, '" he said referencing a lyric from "The End.
But that was Cramer, agree his friends, an occasionally shambling presence who was also a keen observer, a raconteur, a baseball fan, a master of ceremonies. (He served the latter role at Pakenham's wedding.) Ward imagines him in another time, another place, holding court with some other witty friends.
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