raconteuse

Eleanor proved to be a brilliant raconteuse, never missing anything along the way.

She prided herself on being a storyteller, Noah knew, a raconteuse, but maybe that was just the same thing as a gossip.

She is an amusing raconteuse whose story of how she missed out on a medal in the 400 metres at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000--coming a very close fourth --deserves to be heard again.

Ceci est d'autant plus vrai pour le raconteur, la raconteuse de Riel qui ecrit un roman-verite destine a la jeunesse.

A natural raconteuse, anecdotes drip off her tongue easily in an impressive range of accents, a legacy of her acting days, before the Rada-trained Liverpudlian with the plummy voice gave up life in front of the camera to write some of the best dramas on TV, including Widows, Trial & Retribution, The Governor and The Commander.

Speaking in a duality of voices; one of a young, winsome and naive Jewish woman seeking a glorious adventure and that of a seasoned veteran with a here-and-now retrospective tone replete with a sagacious wisdom; Chesler imparts her spellbinding narrative with the level of adroitness that only a consummate raconteuse can muster.

Amor had a prodigious memory, and she was an extraordinary raconteuse. But by the end of her life, the energy necessary to tell a story, even when dictating these memoirs, was very limited.

Feldshuh leavens her performance with disarming touches of shticky humor, deftly coloring the gravity of her experiences with the self-dramatizing flair of a born raconteuse and helping to tone down the hagiographic glow of Gordon's character portrait.

In fact, some elements of the story cannot be uttered, at least by the raconteuse who hands the story, at that moment, off to the chanvreur.

I believe it was Tom Stoppard who described her as a "fascinating raconteuse."

Among the most popular with East Coast audiences is Violet, a blue-blood raconteuse in her eighties who compulsively recounts her long and eventful life as an early advocate for birth control.