multivocal

Example Sentences

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“We know there’s not just one approach to the future. It’s multifaceted, multivocal. It envisions equity and sustainability. It’s asking juicy questions rather than prescribing what will be. We’re counting on the brilliance of our audience.”

From Washington Post

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” is a multivocal book, switching voices from chapter to chapter.

From Los Angeles Times

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

The essence of his talent is multivocal, and he has, in the past, attributed this to his childhood anxiety at having the wrong voice, which, in his case, meant speaking like his mother—that is, speaking “white.”

From The New Yorker

But it’s more like an important lesson about life in a multivocal and diverse public culture, a lesson that, yes, white guys with media megaphones would do well to take seriously.

From Salon