To singers, the convenient position of the prompter is a matter of real importance. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
The prompter is a safety net and a friendly face, allowing performers to concentrate more on their acting. From Wordnik.com. [It's Not Over] Reference
So imperfect were they also in their parts, that the prompter was the only person from whom any single speech passed without a blunder. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
He doesn't have to pack the 'prompter', they're joined at the hip. moron | 3.6.09 @ 11: 04PM. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
Part of my satisfaction was actually relief; "prompter" speeches are not John S. McCain's forte. From Wordnik.com. [Blogrunner] Reference
In any case it is a kind of prompter of the poetic allusions that occupied the boys 'hours at school. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
Example: The prompter is used in some TV broadcasts. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain, A Decoded Enigma] Reference
SERWER: I think it's time to read the prompter again. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2004] Reference
He can read a prompter very well and energize a crowd. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2008] Reference
The candidate answers after his prompter, "More light.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference
Love has been for us, also, a marvellous brain-prompter. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
"Countersign!" whispered the prompter behind the barrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference
The candidate answers, after his prompter, "More light.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference
HEMMER: I'm not supposed to look at that prompter over there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2004] Reference
KURTZ: The job is a lot more than just reading copy off the prompter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 28, 2006] Reference
The prompter was at his post, but took no earthly notice of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Not the sound of a hammer nor the whisper of a prompter was ever heard. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
But our present purpose is with Nichol Newfangle and his arch-prompter. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anything you put on that prompter, Burgundy will read. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference
Necessity is the prompter of ingenuity, and the suggestion came from that source. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
A sense of duty was the prompter, candor the interpreter, and good sense the judge. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
The men were imperfect -- incapable of getting through a sentence without the prompter. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
The prompter nodded, and Paul passed on to the spot from which he was to make his entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Of those counsels I confess that I have been and still am an adviser and prompter to Caesar. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
"Say, 'Will some honorable member state the object of this meeting?'" whispered the prompter. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
He floundered, gagged, forgot the cue, and the voice of the prompter became distinctly audible. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
His business, however, prospered so well that he could never go and look the prompter in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
The worthy prompter supplied him with books, a benefit he derived from the following circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
'I shan't take the book for this last scene,' he whispered to the prompter; 'but watch me, will you?'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
He forgot what he had to say, and looked appealingly to the prompter, who prompted rather too loudly. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
True, he forgot his lines at one place, but what is a prompter for if not to act in such an emergency?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Several sets of four couples were formed ready for the first strains of the lancers music and the prompter. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
She obtained further notoriety after my departure, by kicking and cuffing a prompter, and calling the proprietor. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
I can look very natural, like I'm talking off the top of my head and then the prompter person does this and I'm dead. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference
Bill Clinton once looked up to see the wrong speech in his prompter as he was about to deliver the State of the Union. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference
In the meantime the candle blew out; it was relighted; the prompter found his place and signaled to the hero to come on. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
At public or semi-private dances there is always a master of ceremonies, who is also prompter and calls out all the movements. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
And distrust, always ready now like a prompter in the box, suggested most upsettingly that perhaps he was not giving the right words. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Should feel more confidence in result if FIBBINS had told me of this prompter arrangement before the very morning when the trial comes on. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891] Reference
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