He is tremendously appealing: a great storyteller on stage and an earnest interlocutor one-on-one, without the usual politician's habit of flicking his eyes around the crowd while speaking to you.
The last thing these photographs need, from the modern point of view, is an interlocutor, especially one who wants to tell moralizing anecdotes or characterize his subjects by race.
She told her curious interlocutors in one negotiating session that it was "a long time ago" and she had not been involved in Palestinian affairs.
Jenny Erpenbeck thanks thirteen interlocutors, whom one assumes to be African immigrants in Germany, for "many good conversations," and her novel has about it an air of practical humility, since presumably Richard's questions were once hers, too.
This rules out most of them as interlocutors, though one government spokesman said that groups interested in parleying should not be examined under a "microscope .The government's big hope is for the Jordanian Islamist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to be knocked out of the equation.
(Members of the Trump team, in contrast, seem to have viewed contacts with various international characters, whether a Russian ambassador or a Saudi prince, as a simple affirmation of their own importance, without really looking at their interlocutors' agendas; one wonders what their susceptibility to flattery will cost them).
The reader is given every encouragement to believe that the reason why Socrates is successful in persuading his interlocutors (on those occasions when he does succeed) is that his arguments are powerful ones.
This early essay emphasizes the importance of finding a (conceptual) "content" that one shares with one's interlocutor(s), and restricting one's conversation to this.
And so, some of these efforts, I think, through the Iraqi interlocutors, are ones that, again, are trying to advance our common objectives against Isil".
