diction

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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 • Jan. 19, 2026

An American Shakespearean who can hold his own with the Brits, he combines mellifluous diction with muscular imagination.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

His crisp diction and impeccable emphasis make every line ring out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Inside I found things long forgotten: my mother fitting words together for a song, diction for the stage, three recipes for tea to calm nerves and promote sleep, finger scales for the lute.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss