diction
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What he used this week was not the diction of the common man but the language of sociopathy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
As Hyllus, the son of Hercules and Dejanira, David Portillo was similarly impressive, his bright, easy tenor and excellent diction assets in his ardent filial devotion and wooing of Iole.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
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
“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
Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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