diction
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The musical-theater singers excelled in theatricality and diction, but I missed some of the lushness that we expect from opera performances.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 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
Wilson Follett, the author of “Modern American Usage,” complained about its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms and of shabby diction generally.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
“I find it hard to come up with an adequate analogy, but imagine the plain, contemporary style of Raymond Carver being garnished with the elaborate diction of Charles Dickens,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
I knew the relaxed patois of the South Side and the high-minded diction of the Ivy League, and now on top of that I spoke Lawyer, too.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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