"sarcasm" is an insincere form of politeness which is used to offend one's interlocutor. It is rather a dialog in which Ko hurls scattershot against a skeptical anonymous interlocutor. Glaucon is present for the remainder of the discourse, sharing duties as interlocutor with Adeimantus. Hoare loathed Franco and found him a puzzling and obtuse interlocutor. Seaborg also became an adept interlocutor of Berkeley physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Meanwhile Lucy receives a call, and is startled when the interlocutor identifies himself. One examiner acts as interlocutor and assessor, interacting with the candidates and managing the test. Also, it became a key interlocutor for foreign donors. Wyatt addresses his interlocutor John Poynz on the vanity of human wishes. The first part involves a brief exchange between each candidate and the interlocutor. In recent years, Searle's main interlocutor on issues of social ontology has been Tony Lawson. Style matching is defined as the matching of behaviors between a speaker and an interlocutor. If I speak to you, you are my interlocutor. Each board has a paid district manager who acts as an interlocutor with city agencies. Upon the instruction of the "interlocutor", a sort of host, they sat in a semicircle.