diction
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Sure, it owes a debt to Faulkner—with its high diction and sentences that outpace their punctuation—but it isn’t imitating him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
As Hyllus, the son of Hercules and Dejanira, David Portillo was similarly impressive, his bright, easy tenor and excellent diction assets in his ardent filial devotion and wooing of Iole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
With the program and song texts only available to download on the cellphone, the audience was left in the dark without texts and, with amplification obscuring diction, not knowing what’s what.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026
An American Shakespearean who can hold his own with the Brits, he combines mellifluous diction with muscular imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
Clean, polite, nice voice, good diction, a pretty decent-looking fellow, with a very disarming smile—and in the beginning he smiled quite a lot.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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