diction
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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
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 • Oct. 14, 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
“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 • Oct. 16, 2024
It is something about his voice, not his pitch or his rapid-fire, caffeinated diction, but the voice itself—the familiarity of it, I guess, but also its inexhaustibility.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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