Benedict and his interlocutor spoke in German.
This colleague heard her interlocutor speaking in German.
The narrator of "Outline," by Rachel Cusk, is a recently divorced English writer who recounts, in dissecting, dispassionate detail, the conversations she has over two days in Athens, though calling them "conversations" is a stretch; her interlocutors speak revealingly of themselves while Cusk's narrator keeps largely silent, as if trying to erase herself from her own life.
While interlocutors speak about a certain theme they take alternating turns as speakers and listeners.
To the Belgians, hip cats looking for whatever's new in town, manners matter — always make sure that your Belgian interlocutor actually speaks French — and so does "free wireless," the guide reports between parentheses, and with some telling ellipses: those guys… The guide notes that no one will spend less money in the capital than the non-Parisian French visitors.
There is one interlocutor who speaks in nearly all of Plato's dialogues, being completely absent only in Laws, which ancient testimony tells us was one of his latest works: that figure is Socrates.
It is often all too clear that, while their interlocutor is speaking, participants in talk-shows and phone-ins are not really listening, but thinking up the next clever thing that they want to say.
There are few verbal gestures as dismissive as simply not allowing your interlocutor to speak.
He's a foreign policy heavyweight, he gets things done in difficult situations and in difficult countries, and when he tells an interlocutor that he speaks for the President, that means he really does speak for the President.
All three of Kissinger's interlocutors could speak for their people and deliver and sustain any agreements.
