What you want in a conversationalist is as much character as authority. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Blog] Reference
And we saw Shaftesbury earlier argue that my function as conversationalist is affected by the quality of recognition my efforts receive. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference
I do not remember of a more fluent "conversationalist" in my life. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
But this conversationalist embroiders and dilates. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917] Reference
He was a brilliant and not obtrusive conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
Outside the office he was a delightful conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
He likes to travel, and he ` s a great conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference
All I know is that Steve was a tremendous conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006] Reference
She ` s a great conversationalist, and she does have the news credibility. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2006] Reference
GORBACHEV, (through translator): A wonderful conversationalist very skillful. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004] Reference
In the social circle he is companionable, but not a very good conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
He was a skilled and a courteous conversationalist, Luke was forced to conclude. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
He was a most entertaining conversationalist, and we enjoyed his country greatly. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
As a conversationalist, Rigney rounds into midseason form early in spring training. From Wordnik.com. [Reunion In The Desert] Reference
Great conversationalist and he has, in the past, though, been called a serial dater. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 1, 2008] Reference
The Colonel is a good thinker, an excellent conversationalist, and a very learned man. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
A dinner-guest, or a host, or a hostess, is for the time being a conversationalist, not. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
He was a man who was quiet; he kept his "points," and was a pleasing conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
He wasn't an interviewer as much as he was a conversationalist, and that was his secret. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2004] Reference
He was a brilliant conversationalist, and his tastes, like my father's, were decidedly literary. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
She was well educated for that early day, a good conversationalist, and always gentle and cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896] Reference
As a brilliant conversationalist and well-versed political economist he has few rivals in his country. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
She mentioned to the Mother Superior afterwards that young Mr. Arnold was really a delightful conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
He proved an interesting conversationalist -- keen, slightly cynical, but not without an under-note of earnestness. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
She is extremely entertaining as a conversationalist, but I think she was meant for society rather than the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Taylor was not a conversationalist, but on paper he could put his meaning so plainly that there could be no mistaking it. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The members of the Ladies 'Aid, who hastened to call, said, "She is perfectly charming -- such a fine conversationalist!". From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
He's a polite-but-unrevealing conversationalist who tends to fold his arms across his chest and keep his mouth firmly shut. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins] Reference
The sweetest part of my day happened when I coaxed a first-time Politiku out of a new British online conversationalist friend. From Wordnik.com. [Susanna Speier: Another September 11th Is Over and Done Politiku] Reference
The cultivated conversationalist who talks gossip in its intellectual form does not indulge in oblique hints and insinuations. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
The pig is one of the most rapidly loquacious of animals, yet no one would say that the pig is an attractive conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
BRADY: Lennon's a clever, understated conversationalist who gives us a wry account of his likes and dislikes, obsessions and aversions. From Wordnik.com. [The Best New Music of 2005: John Brady] Reference
But at the Table, delightful as Keene personally was -- he was lovingly addressed as "Carlo" -- he was not a leading conversationalist. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
But he always lacked that greatest power of the conversationalist, that subtle ready sympathy which draws forth the best powers of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Penloe had that rare gift of a good conversationalist, being able to make others talk their best instead of doing all the talking himself. From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
'The process' he says, 'might begin by releasing somebody from a homicidal maniac and end by dealing with a rather dull conversationalist.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
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