diction

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He sings with an unusual drawl that connects to the diction of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, and his compact melodies and tightly structured chord progressions put his voice and lyrics in the foreground.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 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

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

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