elocution

And as entertaining as I was, I drove my poor husband from the room, his ears sick of what amounted to an elocution of poorly remembered, high school French verb conjugation delivered in rhyme and interspersed with outbursts of les poissons, les poissons!

Where many performers in his position would have tales about elocution training and other pre-production research to share, Galitzine had about two weeks over the holidays to prepare to play his.

Most of us can't specifically recognize the pains taken to ensure that the actors’ elocution is period-appropriate, each piece of cloth from their costume hangs perfectly or their hair is not only in place but also the right length to convey their station.

When I was a kid, I started doing elocution lessons because I had a really bad lisp.

So they sent me to elocution, which was boring, but eventually it was speech and drama classes.