Crossword clues for storyteller
storyteller
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience. 2 (context role-playing games English) A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.
WordNet
someone who tells lies [syn: fibber, fabricator]
Wikipedia
Storyteller, Story Teller, or Story-Teller may refer to:
- Narrator, a storyteller within a story
- Oral storytelling, traditional relation of history and culture
- Storytelling, the conveying of events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment
"Storyteller" is the sixteenth episode of seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "Storyteller" refers to Andrew Wells, who has become a pseudo-member of the Scooby Gang after being a villain in the previous season, and has been held hostage at Buffy's home since early in the season.
Storyteller is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on September 16, 2003 (Audio Fidelity 015) and was the first Donovan album released as a Super Audio CD/ CD hybrid.
Storyteller is the second studio album from singer-songwriter Crystal Waters, released on May 17, 1994 by Mercury Records. Storyteller peaked at number 199 on the Billboard 200, number 73 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 8 on the Top Heatseekers chart. Four singles were released from the album: "What I Need", "Relax", "Ghetto Day", and the hit, "100% Pure Love". "Ghetto Day" samples The 5th Dimension's 1968 hit " Stoned Soul Picnic".
The album sold 284,000 copies and was certified gold in the United States. Upon release, Storyteller received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics.
Storyteller is the debut album from Canadian R&B singer Raghav. Combining elements of his South-Asian background with reggae and US style R&B, Raghav has defined his own style as showcased in the UK top ten hits with "Can't Get Enough", "So Confused" and " Angel Eyes".
A Storyteller is a clay figurine made by the Pueblo people of New Mexico. The first contemporary storyteller was made by Helen Cordero of the Cochiti Pueblo in 1964 in honor of her grandfather, who was a tribal storyteller. It is basically a figure of a storyteller, usually a man or a woman and its mouth is always open. It is surrounded by figures of children and other things, who represent those who are listening to the storyteller. The motif is based on the traditional "singing mother" motif which depicts a woman with her mouth open holding one or two children.
Storyteller is a hybrid collection of poetry, short stories and family photographs compiled by Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko. It was first published in 1981 following the literary success of the novel Ceremony.
Storyteller is a book by Amy Thomson published in 2003 by Ace Books. The book follows the story of an orphan who is adopted by a storyteller, a member of the Storytelling Guild who travels the stars in a historian like capacity. In contrast to her earlier books which were very hard science fiction Storyteller was much more romantic, the novel focuses on themes such as longevity and environmentalism ignoring technological focus. One reviewer wrote "Some readers will find this book immensely touching. However, readers who prefer a harder edge are liable be put off by sentimentality, weak conflict and a too-readily resolved plot that smacks of wish fulfillment".
Storyteller is an album by pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Mark Helias, and drummer Paul Motian recorded in 2003 and released on the ECM label.
Storyteller is the fifth studio album recorded by American singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood. It was released on October 23, 2015, through Sony Music Entertainment. Following the release and success of her fourth studio album, Blown Away (2012), Underwood began working on Storyteller in early 2014. However, she tentatively suspended most work on the album because of her pregnancy with her first child. In the midterm, Underwood released her first greatest hits record, Greatest Hits: Decade #1, on December 9, 2014, to much success. After the birth of her son, she took some additional time off before going back into the studio in early 2015 to finish working on the album.
Met with mostly positive reviews from music critics, Storyteller became a commercial success and set multiple records upon its release. By debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, it made Underwood the only country artist in history to have all of her first five studio albums debut at number one or two, and with a number one debut on the Top Country Albums chart, it made her the only artist to score six consecutive number one albums on the chart. Storyteller also performed well internationally upon its release, including a number four debut in Australia, number three in Canada and thirteen in the United Kingdom. The album has been certified Gold by the RIAA.
The album has produced the back-to-back Billboard Country Airplay chart number-one singles " Heartbeat" and " Church Bells", along with the number-two single " Smoke Break". Both "Smoke Break" and "Hearbeat" also topped the Billboard Canada Country chart and have been certified Gold by the RIAA.
Usage examples of "storyteller".
Then came the gracious Princess of Pleasure and her daughter Folly, leading her subjects - players of dice, cards and back-gammon, conjurers, bards, minstrels, storytellers, drunkards, bawds, balladmongers and pedlars with their trinkets in countless number, to be at length instruments of punishment to the damned fools.
Most of these Celts were related, and all had a role to play in their small society: the storyteller, the jokester, the warrior, the mother hen, the tippler, the magician, the singer, the cook.
Conan Doyle was a supreme storyteller and few other writers have so evocatively captured the language and times of Victorian London, with its gaslit streets and hansom cabs.
I was very young, my mother put me to bed with these stories, told in the harsh, old-fashioned French patois of her aunts, a sound that I associated with the stern-voiced chants of the Onondagan storytellers who used similar cautionary tales when they sought to persuade recalcitrant rebels to bend their will to that of the Confederacy.
Peking famous for its storytellers, acrobats and other street-performers.
American Employment Program, which in 1999 sponsored a presentation by storyteller Penny Gamble Williams, the tribal chief of the Chappaquiddick Indian Nation of the Wampanoag Indian Nation, relating tales passed down through the generations.
Miranda was especially excited when she found two very distinct petroglyphs where an ancient storyteller had once etched images of hunters and their quarry onto the surface of rocks.
It was one of the paradoxes of their relationship that he, the sometime ape, had been educated in the great myths of the world by Fletcher, while she, the professional storyteller, had only the sketchiest knowledge of the subject.
Storytellers use those techniques today, whether they are sitting around a campfire or in a Hollywood office.
Ron Shock, a forty-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, who had turned twenty-one in prison and run several businesses before becoming a full-time stand-up comedian, had a small-town drawl and a gift for hyperbole that made him an unrivaled storyteller.
When I realized that in the annals of our world, Tacit was a hero of epic proportions, going through the paces of an equally epic adventure that was the kind of thing balladeers, poets, and storytellers loved to tell to rapt audiences?
CHARACTERS APPENDIX Allmother, Meerclar, Creator of the Folk Bandyleg, Firsthome cat Bast-Imret, Boneguard Beetleswat, young Meeting Wall torn Bitefast, Clawguard Bite-then-Bark, Rauro, Dog-king of Eatbugs' story Blueback, a prince of the Folk Bobweave, a First-walker Brightnail, a prince of the Folk Brindlesides, Fritti Tailchaser's father Bristlejaw, Meeting Wall Master-singer Brushstalker, First-walker Thane Cleanwhisker, a prince of the Folk Clearsong, Tirya, Tailchaser's oldest sister Click, Master, a squirrel Climbfast, a prince of the Folk Cloudleaper, Cat-queen of Eatbugs' story Crushgrass, Clawguard chieftain Dandlegrass, Firsthome cat Dayhunter, companion of Fencewalker Dewtreader, Prince Sresla, Prince Consort to Queen Sunback Earnotch, Vastnir prisoner, storyteller Earpoint, Meeting Wall elder, delegate ?
But captains make the best storytellers of anyone, and Caxtonian captains are no exception.
One storyteller relates that a particularly aggressive member of the posse suddenly found himself dangerously close to the desperadoes and might have come within firing range of the crack shots.
Accounts from school and Storyteller assimilations had not prepared him for this.