And since when did accountability become an issue for a homespun raconteuse?. From Wordnik.com. [Two Gentle People | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
She is unexperimental and unpretentious, a born storyteller, but serious: not just a raconteuse. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts] Reference
They rejoiced, for she was a brave raconteuse, but many were the keys turned in sideboard locks that night against the possible defection of little. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
At 61, Brigid the brilliant raconteuse (see The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again) has lost none of her ranting piquancy – especially when her late mother is the topic. From Wordnik.com. [Mommy, Andy and Me] Reference
The second Judy went straight from Andy Hardy's barn to premature middle age, and emerged as the most dynamic stage presence since Al Jolson: a ballad singer whose taste in songs was second only to Sinatra's, a great comedienne, and a rueful raconteuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Least Worst Man] Reference
Mrs. Oldham smiled, well pleased at the tribute to her powers as a raconteuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Butterfly] Reference
Judith Owen is a Wales-born torch singer and raconteuse and a part-time New Orleanian. From Wordnik.com. Reference
She keenly felt the dramatic situation and was already visualizing herself in the role of raconteuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Dawn] Reference
Old Mother Bartholomew, owing, Mrs. Bradley supposed, to her former profession, was a gifted raconteuse. From Wordnik.com. [St Peter's Finger]
Mrs. Stanton is a first-rate raconteuse and fills her pages with amusing recitals and brilliant encounters -- N. Y. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
Had Mrs.R. B. Smith been a real, and not a fictional, person, it would certainly have been her last appearance as a raconteuse in this educational institution. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Story-Teller] Reference
They rejoiced, for she was a brave raconteuse, but many were the keys turned in sideboard locks that night against the possible defection of little Bobby or Barbara. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
Then was the time for stories; and often in the long dark, while yet it was hours too early for bed, would Ginevra go with Nicie, who was not much of a raconteuse, to the kitchen, to get one of the other servants to tell her an old tale. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Gibbie] Reference
Alvin Ailey is a choreographic tapestry featuring the entire Company while Smith as actress/raconteuse has gathered personal vignettes of the dancers and interspersed them throughout the work, creating a picture-biography of Mr. Ailey's loving legacy. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Blogs Stories] Reference
A fictional, person, it would certainly have been her last appearance as a raconteuse in this educational institution. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Story-Teller] Reference
She was a master raconteuse. From Wordnik.com. [For Yesterday] Reference
The raconteuse smiled patiently. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Story-Teller] Reference
A raconteuse deserve a record. From Wordnik.com. [Old times in Dixie land : a southern matron's memories,] Reference
) Every dress I make is an opportunity to recount a story, as well, and being (mostly) Irish and an aspiring raconteuse, I rarely turn down an opportunity to tell a story ... especially ones that are (as so many dress stories are) stories of triumphing over adversity, however small that adversity is. From Wordnik.com. [April 2007] Reference
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