diction

Example Sentences

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The musical-theater singers excelled in theatricality and diction, but I missed some of the lushness that we expect from opera performances.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

But elevated diction is one of the facades behind which “Call the Midwife” pretends to be a TV program so gentle and mild.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

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 • Apr. 14, 2025

Along with her appearance, she also honed her acting with meticulous attention to diction and technique.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker