Sticking his face with its transparent, icy eyes right into the face of his interlocutor, he desperately lurches about in a verbal prison of hemming and hawing.
Putin, for his part, is known to prepare carefully for these types of meetings, and to tailor his message to the identity of his interlocutor.
Whereas "Rabbit Redux" might seem to ask whether we're a melting pot or cesspool, the answer ultimately says more about the person answering than it does about Updike the interlocutor — a neat trick of his.
Instead, he outwits his interlocutor with fabulous tales of his childhood in Africa, his slave-ship passage to England, and his time in service in London as "a celebrity of slum and mansion".
As scabrous, combative, fiercely intelligent, funny and uncompromising as you would expect – that muscular mind flexing for a moment and firing off its answers to (or dismissals of) his interlocutor's questions.
He was affable with everyone, smiling warmly, but in exchanges that lasted more than a few seconds it was possible to see him slipping subtly into the idiom of his interlocutor — the blushing, polysyllabic grad student, the hefty black church-pillar lady, the hip-hop autoshop guy.
In his book Plato's Socratic Conversations (1986), Stokes offered a careful and systematic reading of three dialogues (the Laches, the dialectical part of the Symposium and the Protagoras) that emphasised the way in which the character of Socrates makes use of his interlocutor's positions, admissions, social function and status to refute their views.
For the most part, the arguments focus on the incompatibility of his interlocutor' selfish aims with their better social insights.
Anselm explicitly makes of his interlocutor a partner in the dialogue who is supposed to anticipate conclusions and implications and/or who more truly motivates the entire discussion (Sweeney 1999).
Olmert had many reservations about the ability of his interlocutor Mahmoud Abbas to deliver on promises made, but he decided to reengage the Palestinians, especially after the Annapolis conference.
