multivocal
Example Sentences
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The Whitney show promises a tough, complex, multivocal response to it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
The novel’s multivocal structure gives each narrator equal weight; the collective theme that no one can ever know what another person is thinking or experiencing comes at the price of never seeing the whole truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
The humor associated with black language play—with jokers like Pryor and Bernie Mac—directly descends from this multivocal tradition, and from the trouble that made it necessary.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
The clear purpose of the multivocal narrative is to let you piece together the apparently strange world of the Congo from these different accounts.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
A useful instance to illustrate the importance of distinct, and the mischief of equivocal or multivocal, terms.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
