diction
Example Sentences
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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
An American Shakespearean who can hold his own with the Brits, he combines mellifluous diction with muscular imagination.
From Los Angeles Times
Her voice is low and breathy and her diction is flat, and her vocals sit a hair lower in the mix than one might expect.
But elevated diction is one of the facades behind which “Call the Midwife” pretends to be a TV program so gentle and mild.
His crisp diction and impeccable emphasis make every line ring out.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.