Sentence examples for anecdote teller from inspiring English sources

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Johnson was unfailingly good humoured – not much of an anecdote teller, but ready to rouse the rabble.

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THE Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich is a wondrous teller of anecdotes.

Personal anecdotes and memories from the Teller's childhood run below some of the photographs, revealing his sentimental side.

She was a wonderful teller of stories and anecdotes.

Zuckerman is a relentless and pro ficient teller of stories — both of real anecdotes and of those known to non-practitioners as jokes.

His other works included A Story-Teller's Holiday (1918), a blend of autobiography, anecdote, Irish legend, and satire; Conversations in Ebury Street (1924), autobiography; The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe (1924); and Ulick and Soracha (1926), an Irish legendary romance.

The key to the anecdote is that it should be neither interesting nor funny, but the teller should plough on regardless, finishing up with a hurt entreaty along the lines of, "There are several boys at Stowe who refer to that story as El Clasico".

Long anecdote.

Great joke teller.

TALK anecdote.

The teller said….

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