diction

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

From The Wall Street Journal

Wilson Follett, the author of “Modern American Usage,” complained about its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms and of shabby diction generally.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

“I find it hard to come up with an adequate analogy, but imagine the plain, contemporary style of Raymond Carver being garnished with the elaborate diction of Charles Dickens,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times