conversational quality
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Their calls are few in number and have little of that conversational quality which we note in those of our ordinary barnyard fowls.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
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