raisonneur

As a happy consequence of this switch, the Oscar-winning Mr. Freeman anchors the film with his charismatic authority as a raisonneur and as a witness to the separate strands of the story, which in the book are narrated by a half-dozen or so participants in the multiple love feasts.

A Lovable Feast: An Old Friend Offers Cure for the War Weary 2007

Morgan executed his raisonneur and narrator functions efficiently enough, but the biggest laughs came from hilarious blowhard types, including Rudy Vallee, Hugh Herbert, Bill Goodwin and-funniest of all-a small, rotund, cherubic actor named Dick Elliott, with a rollicking yet rasping laugh that was one of the most distinctive expressions of malignant mirth in the history of the American talkies.

In Full Swing: Sexual Liberation in L.A. 2004

Morgan executed his raisonneur and narrator functions efficiently enough, but the biggest laughs came from hilarious blowhard types, including Rudy Vallee, Hugh Herbert, Bill Goodwin and-funniest of all-a small, rotund, cherubic actor named Dick Elliott, with a rollicking yet rasping laugh that was one of the most distinctive expressions of malignant mirth in the history of the American talkies.

In Full Swing: Sexual Liberation in L.A. 2004

Amid all these positive and negative allegorical figures, Mr. Spader's Dr. Ernst alone supplies the audience with a protagonist, a raisonneur and a sufficiently flawed character at the outset who gradually becomes redeemable by the final fadeout.

Lumet Lambastes the Docs: Check Your Policy First 1997

Amid all these positive and negative allegorical figures, Mr. Spader's Dr. Ernst alone supplies the audience with a protagonist, a raisonneur and a sufficiently flawed character at the outset who gradually becomes redeemable by the final fadeout.

Lumet Lambastes the Docs: Check Your Policy First 1997

We see here what a very experienced observer and raisonneur he is.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 - Presentation Speech 1962

To apply this passage to the work of Bernard Shaw is again to destroy the popular conception of him as merely the acute raisonneur, the intellectual critic of his kind, with a wallet of revolutionary propaganda whereby his reputation lives or dies.

George Bernard Shaw: Harlequin or Patriot? 1915

It goes without saying that he rejects the monologue, the unnatural reading of letters, the _raisonneur_ or commenting and providential character, the lightly motivised confession -- all the devices, in brief, by which the conventional playwright blandly transports information across the footlights, or unravels the artificial knot which he has tied.

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

Do you figure Basil Randolph, alongside his portière, as but the observer, the _raisonneur_, in this narrative?

Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

So, too, Ibsen does without the _raisonneur_ of Dumas and Augier, that condensation of the Greek chorus into a single person, who is only the mouthpiece of the author himself and who exists chiefly to point the moral, even tho he may sometimes also adorn the tale.

Inquiries and Opinions Brander Matthews 1890