The diction of everyday talk is different from the diction of a formal essay. From LearnThat.org.
Is this about intellect or insane skills in diction?. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
Her diction is finely chiselled and at the same time free of mannerism. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 - Press Release] Reference
Wordsworth's purgation of poetic diction is not terroristic in Paulhan's sense. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Harold Bloom] Reference
All forms of English are more or less mutually intelligible, with some important variations in diction and vocabulary. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » White House In Disarray: Contradicting Snow, Gonzales Says Bush Opposes Making English The National Language] Reference
Maybe he's too cute, maybe his diction is too good, maybe he doesn't have enough tough-sounding consonants in his name. From Wordnik.com. [Update] Reference
Poetic language and elevated diction is an obstacle to understanding for "ordinary" people, Wordsworth seems to be saying. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The diction is simple and crisp, the details are acute, as metaphors slowly assemble, cloud-like, creating a melancholic atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Hello vast emptiness, : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
While admitting that now and again his diction is a little too. From Wordnik.com. [Old Familiar Faces] Reference
Some are taking lessons in English diction and table manners, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com] Reference
But she has to work on her Urdu diction, which is bad and jarring. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The elegance and purity of his diction is the more remarkable as he was a. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
Sarah's robo-dad monologue if we need to get back to diction is top notch. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
His manner, his dress and his diction are the perfection of English elegance. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea] Reference
"The first thing that strikes you about his diction is his difficulty with the letter R,". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Addison's papers also in the diction, which is natural and idiomatic even to carelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
The large chorus also performed admirably, although their diction was a bit mushy at times. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
In his naive diction, which is curiously out of harmony with the complex plot in sensational. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)] Reference
They resemble Addison's papers also in the diction, which is natural and idiomatic even to carelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
He tells us, that the first beauty of an Epic poem consists in diction, that is, in the choice of words, and harmony of numbers. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
14: "Anointing the frail with his claret" is the most notable bit of portmanteau diction I've seen in a while. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Thomson in diction and sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on ''Manilus to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s'] Reference
It is full of feeling, and of that simple, dignified, adequate diction which is the speech of feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by a Little Girl] Reference
Together with the "yeahs" and "gonnas" and "atchas", this was not the kind of diction parents were going to appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
'diction 't Job had, ain't it?' says I, 'and pathers -- thar' ye've kind. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
Yet his diction tends to be simple, his preference plainsong. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst] Reference
These British actors have honey tongues and impeccable diction. From Wordnik.com. ['Playing Shakespeare' The Way The Pros Do It] Reference
The smooth talker took lessons to make his diction more "white.". From Wordnik.com. [Day & Night] Reference
Stage presence and nice diction aren't enough to do Mamet justice. From Wordnik.com. [Mamet Stage Direction] Reference
Jammer attributes the difference, in the first instance, to a shift in diction. From Wordnik.com. [Are you ready for the British MCs?] Reference
Their songs are full of old-English diction with chimbley sweeps and barrow boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Decemberists: Of Ambition And Arias] Reference
We did a diction exercise about "Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter.". From Wordnik.com. [A critic raves: Post reviewer Celia Wren dives into Fringe in 'The Rave Scenes'] Reference
That's because I learned diction from a master -- The Voice, The Chairman of the Board. From Wordnik.com. [A Gold Medal For Ol' Blue Eyes?] Reference
We've already had diction and anatomy lessons from Liz Phair, Tori Amos and Courtney Love. From Wordnik.com. [You Oughta Know Her] Reference
For a man so precise, his diction is telling: the condescension inherent in "bright" and "clever" is as poignant as it is unwitting. From Wordnik.com. [The Alchemist of the Mundane] Reference
Gordon Grice writes about animals with a wit that relies on tone of voice, his ironically exact diction and an instinct for analogy. From Wordnik.com. [Three books on deadly creatures] Reference
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