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conversational quality

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noun

  1. (in public speaking) a manner of utterance that resembles the spontaneity and informality of relaxed personal conversation.


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He sought to preserve the intimate, conversational quality of George’s singing, which he compared to “a friend talking to you.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 2018

The details of the barn — the sweet smell of good hay, the nearly conversational quality of a horse’s constantly moving ears — are beautifully wrought.

From Washington Post Apr. 27, 2017

And the play as a whole has a genial, conversational quality; it always holds you, but without trying to shake you.

From New York Times Apr. 4, 2014

What most of the newer songs have in common is their conversational quality.

From New York Times May 10, 2013

I think it is to the conversational quality of their style—its ridiculous and good-humored impertinences and surprises—that his best books owe a great deal of their charm.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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