His conversational delivery probably is most at home with an interlocutor to play off, which may be why, even though you'd never call him a movie star, Mr. Arnold appears so frequently on talk shows.
His interlocutor, a journalist played by Ms. Streep, must fight to hold on to her professional skepticism, a fight that she is ashamed of having lost when the case for the Iraq war was being made.
And if that was true then, six months ago, why should things be so much clearer now as Tim from one huge investment bank supplants Hank from another in America's treasury chair and Gordon – with Lord M playing interlocutor – cancels his last half dozen articles for the Observer?
It sees the nation as "having more flexible Ottoman imperial boundaries" and it pursues economic interests "without concern for the ethnic identity of its interlocutors or the role they played in Republican history".Yet, as Ms White points out, the Kemalists and the new Turks have one thing in common: a deeply embedded nationalism.
Of particular interest here is the absence of a pronomial Subject element for the speech roles of the two interlocutors, and the central role played by the various forms of the verbs for go and return as the negotiation unfolds, facts which are discussed in more detail below.
You might say that he or she is a moral absolutist but an epistemological relativist —someone who doesn't think that there is a trump-card that, when played, will bring your interlocutor over to your side, but does think that there are any number of cards (propositions, appeals, examples, etc).
But U.S. diplomats and commanders argue that they played a crucial role, acting as interlocutors among the factions — and curtailing Maliki's sectarian tendencies.
Still further, Plato's Socrates is not above speaking to his interlocutors rhetorically at times, even sophistically (some of his arguments against Thrasymachus in book I of the Republic have been suspected of falling into the latter category, and Socrates' interlocutors are occasionally reported as feeling that he has played some kind of verbal trick on them).
Played with charm by Greg T. Parente, Ganesha is an interlocutor and spiritual cheerleader for the women.
The play centers on a quasi-mystical figure called the Idiot Savant (played by Mr. Dafoe) as he and two female interlocutors (Elina Löwensohn and Alenka Kraigher) contemplate the nature of language, God and — yes — a giant duck.
Although I was just learning the language myself, I'd gladly play the interlocutor, jumping back and forth between their places at the counter, dipping my fingers into whatever sauce lay about.
