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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 remember these ladies particularly because both were remarkably good talkers—and I am referring to conversational quality, not to volume.

From The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé by Harry Houdini

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