causerie

Causerie is not defined by content or format, but style.

"The Sigh is a standard part of an eight-party line causerie," she wrote.

For example, in a causerie about a politician, she or he may be placed in an imagined situation.

Conversation then, or what the French call a "causerie, " which implies sparkling and point.

I was once booked by my manager to give a causerie in the drawing-room of a New York millionaire.

In English, causerie is commonly known as "personal story", "funny story" or "column" instead.

The content of causerie is not limited and it may be satire, parody, opinion, factual or straight fiction.

Tammi, 1988 (causerie, in Finnish and English on each opposite page)

Often the causerie is a current-opinion piece, but it contains more verbal acrobatics and humor than a regular opinion or column.

Op.47 - Causerie for violin and piano (1908)

Causerie (from French, "talk, chat") is a literary style of short informal essays mostly unknown in the English-speaking world.

The causerie style is characterized by a personal approach to the reader; the writer "babbles" to the reader, from which the term derives.

Moa was very active and had causerie and debate articles in many daily and weekly papers.

"Now for a brief causerie with the sad and gentlemanly Mr. Pardee.

He began by operating a small restaurant La Causerie before becoming head chef of Pavilion on the Park in 1976.

In 1925 Helga worked for a new magazine called Vi kvinnor, she contributed with articles, novels and causerie.

There was nothing, he found, like a Causerie du Lundi for settling and soothing the troubled spirits.

A causerie is generally short, light and humorous and is often published as a newspaper column (although it is not defined by its format).

Causerie sur Ronsard Vendôme, 1863.

"I have yet to learn that my verses and my art causerie are of second-rate quality," said Mrs. Thundleford with acerbity.

I see that Mr. Spively has returned from his promenade; so he can resume his telephonic duties and leave us free for a causerie."

We may mock the French for trying to replace English terms like "talk show" and "prime time" with causerie and heures de grande ecoute.

Eyma, Xavier, "Causerie", Le Moniteur de la mode, July 1866, pp.

He has lived in Egypt, and is acquainted with the family history. . . . Why not have him in here for a brief causerie before tackling the members of the establishment?

He operated La Causerie, Pavilion on the Park, Butler's and The Old Bank restaurants in Sydney and Nautilus in Cairns.