diction
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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
But elevated diction is one of the facades behind which “Call the Midwife” pretends to be a TV program so gentle and mild.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
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
The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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