diction
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Mr. Armitage’s language is striking for its restraint; he does not traffic in the faux-archaic grandiosity, the inflated diction donning the mask of authenticity, that has helped mar so many earlier attempts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The quality of Ms. Stevenson’s voice is like crystal under velvet, clear-edged yet somehow soft, and her diction is as crisp as a fresh green apple.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
In an undated interview taped by her manager, she advised young performers to “first and foremost, get proper training” in voice and diction.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025
Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
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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