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"diction" Definitions
  1. the way that somebody pronounces words
  2. (specialist) the choice and use of words in literature

284 Sentences With "diction"

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Dramatic speech is not to do with diction alone - sometimes you deliberately spoil your diction to make an impact.
These contain sophisticated words and thoughts in sometimes ornate diction.
At times her diction was nearly identical to her mother's.
Instead, in those early years he would focus on diction.
The repetition and odd diction animates the poem with delight.
Accents, diction, and grammar still matter; speaking is risky business.
Her diction, as she called out directives, could have cracked crystal.
"We go a lot through diction and enunciation," Mr. Lamar said.
He was awkward and blunt, yet almost formal in his diction.
Brown's diction, her bearing on the page, is precise but unfussy.
It should be enjoyable and easy, with brisk pace and simple diction.
Her diction, in its variance, mirrors what she's disclosing about the song.
His diction was clear and his singing was frequently moving and evocative.
Nicholas Phan sang with extraordinary warmth of tone and clarity of diction.
Her diction is so good, and she didn't sound like anybody else.
I mean there was this formal diction in how you did things.
Contra-diction: Speech against itself has also been a 2 channel video installation.
The pace of her rapping is often breathless but her diction is impeccable.
Its machine brain understands your human diction — better, it seems, in a car.
This is another language with different diction and different sentence structures and syntax.
Pishevar's latest missive, released on Wednesday, surpasses all his others in style and diction.
"Gay" was the word that we used in the diction for all of us.
Ass-ahem-hole. Let's just say one Facebook poster lives up to his diction.
He sang with rich, deep sound and impeccable diction, and conveyed Wotan's essential dignity.
The parents bought them a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica and insisted on proper diction.
His diction is spectacular in its simplicity, as is the content he delves into.
They also, however, lack the diction and power to project the lyrics to the audience.
She watches her diction, works hard for her grades, and mostly keeps her head down.
In "Washington Black," Edugyan suggests the diction of another time without attempting to replicate it.
He had a buttery voice and excellent diction, with a light Malaysian or Indonesian accent.
She is fastidiously faithful to her class (upper), her diction (refined) and her husband (Maurice).
Their experiences stand in stark contrast, but their language, cadence and diction are surprisingly similar.
His tone was both airy and substantial; his diction crystalline; his manner direct and unaffected.
She also speaks rapid-fire English, which is quite a contrast with Anisimova's measured diction.
Clinton age, her hairstyles evolve, and her diction take on and then lose an Arkansas twang.
This description is part of an explanation of the theory behind the content analysis software Diction.
What's so chilling about this already -frustrating tale of star-crossed English lovers with poor diction?
And going back to diction, he talked about hip-hop and the way it transformed words.
With her soft features and hesitant diction, Byrne gives Julie's confusion a sensual, almost metaphysical, intensity.
It pushes Betts's story forward, in verse that is nimble in its diction, tone and focus.
You can see it in his smallest gestures and hear it in his flat, careful diction.
In person she cut an imposing figure, dressing dramatically and speaking with a diva's perfect diction.
Their meanings could have been spelled out, perhaps, but often only with condescendingly grade-school diction.
He's milking the diction-dairy, wiping up the puddles of Anglo detritus and scoffing the lot.
Rosekrans is blond-haired and blue-eyed and speaks with the measured, calculated diction of an engineer.
Everything he says on camera is interesting, moving—his face so expressive, his diction original and precise.
" The effortful diction suggests the exertions involved for this decorous man to contain "the havoc within me.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SAN DIEGO — The political diction of the 21950s has made a comeback.
Twisted Diction publishes illustrated spoonerisms and other types of punny wordplay to the amusement of their many followers.
Her diction, too, was in contrast to the refinement of her face and the delicacy of her clothing.
She has a beautiful voice, low in register but with a clarion brightness to it, and beautiful diction.
The texture on the tongue is lush, messing with diction; you might suddenly find yourself slurring your words.
Yes, the diction in the tweets is strange sometimes, but no more so than, say, Jeff Bezos's sexts.
The phrasing and diction feel comfortably American, as King is, while the plot points are borrowed from modern China.
True, Young does not quite attain and sustain that slim-Jim diction on an everyday basis, but who could?
It's been a struggle for non-English speaking countries to properly translate the eloquent diction of President Donald Trump.
His diction, focus and tone are those of a caustically gifted word man; his metrical dexterity is everywhere apparent.
If you've ever wanted a Lovecraft novel without the affected diction or racism, you should pick this up today.
The oddness of his language — his fractured diction and superhero jargon (Ramsland includes a glossary) sets it further apart.
We will compare and contrast those printed panels side-by-side analyzing elements ranging from diction, syntax and aesthetics.
When characters, especially Cordell, talk about their deeper feelings, they tend to shift into improbably poetic flights of diction.
"All That Man Is" broke with the occasionally ostentatious diction of these novels in favour of plainer, more direct storytelling.
"It's a rare breed of singer who's able, through feats of diction, to make English intelligible in opera," Beglarian said.
His Penelope — loyal, anxious, angry, exhausted — is Janet (Claire Foy, trading in her plummy royal diction for flattened Midwestern vowels).
This, combined with a straightforwardness of diction from Hemingway, gives you the sensation that you are going somewhere, then landing.
His voice becomes an amplified, guttural caw that somehow also embraces the elegant, emphatic diction of a classic ham actor.
At 2000, she is just as elegant as you would imagine, with silver hair, ice-blue eyes and crisp diction.
He does so impressively, aided by the crisp diction of the singers, often by following the natural rhythms of speech.
She has ramrod posture and diction to match, cultivations that emphasize a steely conversational focus on herself and her causes.
It really is a language, he seems to be screaming on virtually every page, somewhere beneath his own polished diction.
The bright-voiced soprano Caroline Worra relished the challenging role of Sylvia, singing with fervor and intensity, if sometimes indistinct diction.
And it is not often you hear a Wagnerian soprano who takes care to sing with rhythmic fidelity and crisp diction.
"I was brought in and had to follow along with her, getting her diction and acting style," Nixon recalled in 2004.
He manipulates diction, tense, and syntax in the same layered, deliberate manner with which a painter chooses, mixes and applies colors.
Perdomo's vibrant diction refashions the high lyric, drawing on local cant to render the intimacy of home, friendship, and shared loss.
Ms. Caballé's evident devotion to tone over text, reviewers complained, could result in diction so slipshod that it bordered on anarchy.
Hatch is an 113-year-old man who may occasionally use words and phrases that aren't regularly used in modern diction.
American argot is the diction that has Markle sit her fanny on a chair (her bottom, after finishing school anglicizes her).
If they match our strong and weak inflections on the syllables, they basically boost our sound, and our diction carries over.
Inside was a tablet and on it, in the elaborate diction of science fiction, was the history of her romance with Robinson.
Using free indirect speech, and diction both rarefied and transparent, Ms Mantel gives him an inner voice which is authentic and compelling.
Whether Lucy or Alice is narrating, Mangan's diction has the archaic gentility of someone incorrectly imagining how previous generations thought and spoke.
The sheer polish of his singing can lead to a certain sameness; at times, I wanted sharper diction and better-defined contrasts.
His diction, and use of the English language as a tool for chaos is perfect and completely intellectually satisfying in its absurdity.
There was some roughness and smudgy coloratura passagework in her singing, moments when she sacrificed clear Italian diction in pursuit of intensity.
Spufford's prose is always smooth, varying from decorous British formality (he was a professional book reviewer) to more casual conference-speaker diction.
This is the second consecutive week in which I've gotten to imiTATE Pacino's diction in PROSE and I'm extremely grateFUL for the OPPORTUNITY.
President Barack Obama's words are more eloquent and meaningful, yet Palin's unique diction and idiosyncratic syntax have caught the imagination of poetry lovers.
As the cast begins rehearsing everything from duels to diction, J.K. Rowling visited the theater to see how her magical story lives on.
They often approach poetry, by which I mean they forgo nominal expectations of narrative and structure and reach for a more fluid diction.
Sometimes her diction cloaks her words in what feels like a thick, comforting coat that makes them land more softly on your ears.
Bawdy and irreverent, with a technically superb mix of high and low diction: Here's Penelope's take on the story we thought we knew.
All was fog, all was mist, all was boast, all was fiction,As he hid his true airs with bad diet and diction.
Her readings of popular songs and standards had as much in common with Etta James's effulgent soul singing as with Fitzgerald's elegant diction.
Mr. Griffey brought robust sound, tenderness and his trademark crisp diction to songs by Frank Bridge, John Jacob Niles, Charles Ives and others.
Apple has added support for Hindi diction and a Hinglish keyboard in the recent iOS updates, but users said it still isn't good enough.
Long before self-care became a buzzword, the spirit of it infused Rogers' show, down to the unintentional ASMR of his gentle, languid diction.
His third collection, "Felon," pushes Betts's story forward, in verse that is "nimble in its diction, tone and focus," our critic Dwight Garner writes.
In O'Hara's fussy diction — best described as "drunken mid-Atlantic" — words like "baby" and "fruit wine" and "enchilada" get stretched out almost beyond recognition.
If someone thinks all Southerners should sound like they just walked out of Hee Haw, then of course they'll be surprised by my diction.
These calls feel like modern storytelling; Luna at times bends the truth depending on who he's speaking to, but his diction remains the same.
She had no formal training in music, but her pitch was flawless, her phrasing disciplined and her diction crisp in a natural, unforced way.
The young Dutchman, however, lacked the social experience with English to grasp the subtler rules that shape the native speaker's diction, tone and structure.
I don't think I've come across such recondite diction since the last time I read Edward Dahlberg, and that was a long time ago.
It'll check your writing across all media, from the web to documents, and even help you improve your diction with the sentence rephrase tool.
Ms. De Vita, in the smaller male role of Tancredi, proved yet more remarkable, with incisive diction: Her vocalism burns like a dark flame.
The perk: Good diction is important to a multi-lingual law firm, which is probably why this company offers employees free on-site dentistry.
Reservations about Hess's diction aside, the exhibition of 32 works, curated by Michele Wije, also includes period photographs, artist statements, and explanatory wall charts.
Her practice of such belief is meditative, and becomes reflected in her diction: She speaks of endurance, overcoming, soul-sustenance for the long term.
Mr. Berryman's prefatory remarks are delivered with the smooth, Everyman diction you associate with actors doing voice-overs or pitching their résumés at auditions.
Those who actually did have limited educations — and who sometimes felt judged for their imperfect diction or grammar — did not deserve to be shamed.
His grandiloquent, almost patrician diction, so unnatural that it prompted a few laughs, is at odds with the working-class milieu Mr. Louis evokes.
This was after Phil used some unfortunate "diction" when talking about LeBron James' business partners, self-sabotaging New York's free-agency prospects in the process.
According to The New York Times, "His vocabulary is extensive; his diction tends to the grandiosely formal, though overblown to the point of self-parody."
Adams had plenty of material to work with, riffing on walk of shames, Luke's rejection face, Chris Harrison's diction, and Robby's penchant for white jeans.
Last August, the Times published yet another piece analyzing his diction, tracing it back to the Brooklyn political machine he was surrounded by growing up.
There are certainly great books that have been badly translated, that is, they sit on the reader's ear with improbable diction or a dull style.
When she wasn't attending Embassy Balls, a lady was reciting diction exercises before bed and affixing Jacquemus-level oversized hats to her immaculately coiffed head.
"Sandburg's unadorned, muscular, straightforward diction lured me as the painted women under street lamps lured the farm boys in a city named Chicago," she wrote.
Reading Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Twain, James, and Faulkner in such depth helped Milch create complex television characters whose voices were each marked by singular diction.
As the comic relief, he brings a great levity to so many scenes that might otherwise just be occupied by the gruff diction of Geralt.
Their gestures are communicative, making the clear diction of the sung words even clearer; returning later in the story, the same gestures deepen and connect.
At the very least, it creates patterns and reinforcement that so long as your diction is good, you can get what you want without niceties.
Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a prominent lawyer and the model for Atticus Finch, who shared his stilted diction and lofty sense of civic duty.
Like the 1970s, the director points out, 2016 is both a time of fervid political discourse and sexual liberation and of social crises and revolutionary diction.
If you've seen the mock promo online, in which diction-challenged waxwork Alexanya touts her age-defying Youth Milk, you've seen the best of the performance.
"The best compliment you could pay me is 'I really appreciate your diction and the way you get your words out in your performance,'" he says.
Ms Friedlander notes that her tongue and jaw shake during vibrato, her breathing is laboured rather than smooth and that her Italian diction is "completely unintelligible".
Herskovits, who has the diction of someone who knows how to make his voice carry, was wearing khaki cargo pants and a Red Sox T-shirt.
In once-familiar parts of Manhattan he must now look at maps, and his students hear, following his years abroad, something newly British in his diction.
Then the diction is gently rephrased, with synonyms swapped in for non-essential words, until it can fly under the radar of the average plagiarism detector.
Just the opposite: Milch created idiosyncratic, quasi-Shakespearean dialogue (and monologues) that combined the diction of a print culture with the dirty funk of the frontier.
Thanks to rock, he writes musical theater lyrics that arise from their stories at unexpected angles and with a looser diction than most of the classics.
In the next scene, Marcus and Horatio drop the casual way they usually speak, changing their diction around the predominantly white men and women around them.
Using a variety of tools within the field of computational text analysis, they studied diction, style, theme, setting, and the use of character in these novels.
This polite diction makes readers believe that Cressida is enjoying her time at the Greek camp, and we oversee the emotional torture she was forced to endure.
An additional wrinkle is that the diction begins to resemble the ecstatic love duets of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" ("Without naming / Without parting / Newly knowing / Newly burning").
When I'm in Michigan I find myself sliding into a nasal dialect of American English; in Malaysia (or in anger) my diction adopts a British-Commonwealth tone.
Sartori's God is male, jokey and, in Frederika Randall's translation, fairly hokey, with a colloquial diction out of the 1950s and a propensity to wink and nudge.
His diction is terrible, he doesn't exactly have a speech impediment, but it's hard for him to put two sentences together, but I was fascinated and I listened.
Last last month, the creation the cartoonist refers to as "just a chilled out frog" was presented that dubious diction, with Furie's name coming along for the ride.
Her second collection of poetry, Annie Allen, experimented with more elaborate and difficult diction; the title of its main poem, "The Anniad" is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid.
For the most part, Mr Norman is a reporter and not an artist, eschewing literary turns of phrase and symbolism in favor of concise diction and exhaustive research.
Though we quibble about diction, and though critical evaluations will diverge, we can at the very least agree that a translation that misrepresents the author's meaning is bad.
With her careful diction and a bearing that conveys starchiness and sensuality in perfect, improbable balance, Ms. Fonda turns middle-class maturity into a bewitching form of charisma.
But when I interviewed Jessye Norman in 2009, I was struck by the beauty of her diction: each consonant polished, each word uttered in a resonant, inky tone.
He has thinning silver hair, glasses that darken in the sunlight, and a theatrical style of diction that most people reserve for wild anecdotes at noisy cocktail parties.
Nelson's contribution sustained the bloodshed, added some rape, carried off the diction tolerably well and would have been quickly forgotten had it been remembered in the first place.
Ambush delivers these lines with the sort of precise diction that makes bars like "I'm from Camden where crackheads are mandem" ring out clear as a shard of glass.
His diction crisp, his tone dark and burnished, with an exciting undercurrent of muscular force, he needs to add only greater expressive detail: both more bitterness and more tenderness.
This has to be done thousands of times and many edge cases pop up where the model doesn't handle it right or produces some of that admittedly clunky diction.
"Dilly Dilly," for 11 dancers, is to seven folk songs as recorded charmingly by Burl Ives; my keenest pleasure came from listening to Ives's effortless legato, diction and calm.
He has a silky speaking voice, with beautiful, clear diction, while his singing adapts itself readily to the wide range of pitch, phrasing, and vocal techniques on the record.
But within those restrictions, there is a universe of choices as to diction, emphasis, mood and volume to be explored in Mr. Ashley's style, which is controlled yet capacious.
It is beautifully sung by the rich-voiced cast, with Mr. Pinkham handling his heavy chores with a light touch, his firm tenor matched by pleasingly (and necessarily) precise diction.
Then they sit down together and discuss it in minute detail, raising questions, making decisions about the style, the level of diction, the choice of words, phrases, and so on.
Keep lifting, running, stretching (shush PT bullies, to stretch is to lengthen so trying to quash that word is down to your diction), keep hydrating and consuming healthy whole foods.
As a side note, someone in the production must have been obsessed with diction, because this is one of the few shows in which I could understand all the lyrics.
The cast to a full-throated man and woman give it their all and more, and it's been a long time at a musical since I've encountered diction this good.
Too often my contemporaries on my college campus opt for lazy, noncommittal speech that safeguards against taking responsibility or shies away from decisive diction, fearing blind dismissal by the opposition.
He later won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where, bowing to the demands of repertory theaters of the period, he took pains to cultivate plummy London diction.
The papers also suggest that this kind of work is highly applicable in situations like speech therapy, where kids often engage in games like this to improve their understanding or diction.
"She is biding at home, heat-weak and head-wrought" is the sort of diction you might imagine for characters in "Game of Thrones" (filmed partly in Iceland, as it happens).
I did a quick Diction analysis using a bunch of speeches — one from Nikki Haley, one from James Mattis, one from Dan Coats (August 4, 2017), and two from Steven Mnuchin.
Things have not moved on all that far from the days when Georges Pompidou, an ex-president, advised Charles Pasqua, a southern politician, to take diction classes to overcome his "handicap".
Mr. Rees-Mogg's double-breasted suits, antique diction and penchant for polysyllabic words have long endeared him to a nostalgic set of Conservatives pining for the return of a different Britain.
Edward Gauvin's translation suggests the diction of classical drama ("My chest was bathed in tears from my chagrin") — aside from a scene of Julius Caesar's assassination, whose dialogue comes from Shakespeare.
The froufrou production, with its over-the-top performances, proved a fine foil for Ms. Pizzolato's matronly, no-nonsense presence and her dark-toned, coolly assured singing and crystal-clear diction.
A lot of the humor is not only in the situations you put the people you are calling in, but in the diction and syntax of your made up nonsense words.
But when she bounds onstage with a holler and a howl — and diction that nails every last word to the melody — it's clear she deserves that exclamation point in the title.
Critics lauded Mr. Oberlin for his sensitive phrasing, crystalline diction and full, warm, vibrato-rich tone that was devoid of the brittleness and hootiness that for countertenors are looming occupational hazards.
" Carr's professor then quotes extensively from what he presents as de Sable's own account, which contains "quirks of diction and spelling that I transcribe here as they were originally set down.
The one singer who held his own amid the swirl of images was the tenor Gerhard Siegel, who delivered the part of the Captain with cartoonish flair and precisely biting diction.
During his second day on the stand in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Mr. Skelos was at times evasive or recalcitrant, pleading a faulty memory or sparring with prosecutors over diction.
Beyond reading the review to understand how the novel was received by critics, I ask my students to look at the language of the review, including the tone and the diction.
A Danish study recently analyzed the tone of voice as well as ambient noises recorded over microphone, finding that depressed people were more likely to have "slow, flat diction," according to Wired.
It's also made it easier for me to pick up on subtle changes in his accent and diction, and to track his ongoing efforts to sort out three languages in one mind.
In fact Mr Sayer was a nice, funny, ordinary chap, brought up in Liverpool and living in Bolton; station cognoscenti, despite his perfect, classless diction, could still detect the northerner in him.
Biggers speaks in an even baritone, with clear, considered diction; his mouth is often set in the kind of slight upturn that seems on the verge of flowering into an open smile.
Our critic mused on the genius of the comic actor, who died Monday at the age of 83: glimmering eyes, diction "as crisp as a potato chip" and a barely suppressed lunacy.
The Russians' diction was sometimes imperfect—one Instagram post said a "particular hype and hatred for Trump is misleading the people and forcing Blacks to vote Killary"—but their goal was apparent.
This change in pace and the ramping up of the diction may have the secondary effect of superficially weakening his Sheffield accent, but it certainly doesn't take it across the Atlantic Ocean.
I've lived in the in-between since I can remember, holding opposing philosophies in my head at once, changing my clothes and diction and food and daily rituals depending on my needs.
All were also members of the superb chorus, which had obviously been finely drilled by Mr. Fox and well schooled in the pronunciation of Church Slavonic, presumably by a diction coach not identified.
They are dispatched to Rome, where Alexanya Atoz (Kristen Wiig, unrecognizable) rules the fashion world as a Donatella Versace-like fashion empress whose pretentious diction is so comically clotted as to be unintelligible.
In addition to his usual eloquent, communicative delivery, Mr. Scholl showed a typical care for diction in a nonnative language, delicate shadings of tone color and dynamics, lively humor and so much more.
He was widely praised for the size, richness, agility and silvery beauty of his voice, as well as for his superb musicianship, engaging stage presence and impeccable diction in a Babel of languages.
In this latest version, Kenneth Branagh, who also directs (from a script by Michael Green), gives us a Poirot who's fussy but not too fussy, and rather crisp in his English-language diction.
Finally, at Jamaica Bar, the novel's diction, which, so often, never quite landed at American readings — that was the point, but the squints were hard to endure, anyway — not only landed but killed.
A.J. Ditty is excellent as the increasingly frustrated Mr. Curry, and Jess Bulzacchelli, in the role of Great-Aunt Matilda, exudes disdain from every pore, though her diction can be hard to understand.
Choral singing of the Alexandrov sort is bright, chiseled, with we're-all-in-this-together harmonies, stable meters, textbook diction — a kind of a foursquare vocal version, if you will, of Glenn Miller.
But if you were having lingering doubts about Foy trading in clipped royal diction for punk tattoos as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider's Web, Unsane is a good place to start.
In a Q+A interview, Abu Hamdan told The Creators Project more about his trilogy, taqiyya, and the voice and its relationship to politics: Contra Diction: Speech Against itself 2014, performance at Cornerhouse Manchester.
The BBC's 2014 series Jamaica Inn received over 2,000 complaints about bad diction, including one from the director general, who said he couldn't understand what people were saying in some of the corporation's dramas.
Marion Adler plays Marguerite beautifully with a sour face, perfect diction and, in the play's final seconds, a touching sense of empathy, as if she understands how hard it is for him to say goodbye.
Diction aside, the alarming issue is the fact that the FBI effectively infiltrated the campaign of the next president of the United States of America via this so-called informant, without notifying the candidate. Rep.
Ultimately, though, I didn't believe that a woman facing her husband's death, and with it the first wobbles of her own self-assurance, would have the time or inclination to soliloquize — however daunting her diction.
Mr. Berry articulated every word, with precise diction and no noticeable accent, leading some listeners and concert promoters, used to a different kind of rhythm-and-blues singer, to initially think that he was white.
While most young performers in the National Council Auditions concentrate simply on nailing their high notes, Mr. Cohen — his diction superb, his acting alert without overplaying — provided an eloquent reflection on a current international crisis.
Rather, you sense that the faux-populist diction doesn't reflect this author's real allegiances, which are evident in the works he selects for his loving and expert analyses: Rilke and Philip Larkin, Picasso and Henry James.
Next up, Feldstein will be trading in her perfect diction for a Wolverhampton accent as the lead in How To Build A Girl, adapted by Caitlin Moran from her best-selling book of the same name.
If you want your book to be scary (let's say), the diction, syntax, and pacing of the book should likewise point toward scariness: language that relishes shadows and surprises; scenes unfolding slowly to heighten readers' anticipation.
For instance, American: And English: However, K2 investigators who have been hired by some of the women who have been impersonated believe that she might be Asian based on some of the aspects of her diction.
Biblical diction is then applied to lessons learned on the frostbitten corners of Motor City ("Ain't nothing sweet / If you sheep, if you scary pray to Mary in church / Hope the beads on your rosary work").
A mainstay of the New York City Opera in the 1950s and '60s, Ms. Curtin was noted for the purity of her voice, the sensitivity of her musical phrasing and the crystalline perfection of her diction.
For example: What was largely forgotten during Day's "America's Virgin" heyday was that she started out in the late 1930s as a big band singer whose rich tones and sharp diction were inspired by Ella Fitzgerald.
An interview conducted more than 90 years later reveals a woman very much of her era and class, with crisp diction, faultless grammar and a mildly ironical way of talking about even painful and contentious matters.
Sydney in particular sometimes reminds me of an actress with perfect posture and English diction on a Broadway stage, who gets spotted at a bar after the show, sitting in a corner and speaking another language.
The tenor David Portillo, who was a standout at the Met last spring in Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites," was wonderful as Tamino: a rich sound, melting phrasing during moments of lyrical reverie and impressively crisp diction.
"The exquisitely beautiful Lavey, with her flawless, hypnotic diction and dreamy grace, captures the girl's ghostly quality — turning her into a kind of cracked porcelain doll," the critic Hedy Weiss wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times.
Widely admired for his sensitive musicianship, masterly tonal control and impeccable diction in a spate of European languages, Mr. Gedda possessed a lyric tenor voice that shimmered like silver but was no less warm for that.
"One of our writers would actually go online and listen to videos of cattle auctions just to try and set the voice in his head and to pick up little regional bits of diction," they said.
She speaks in an intoxicating hybrid of Middle English, contemporary slang, and every register of diction in between, all rooted in her earthy physicality: Btw nat worry should ma language feeling it weirdo, rude & cueryous at first.
The diction has slowly been getting more charged—he said that there was a "culture of abuse," that "our catholicity [was] at stake," that a "new approach to management" and "a change in our mindset" was required.
The secret of the comedy lies in the paradox of painstaking exaggeration (as if the diner were trying to crack a safe, or solve a philosophical conundrum), enforced by Sebald's calm control of apparently ponderous diction ("operation").
In an interview at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, her posture perfect and diction precise, Ms. Panjabi — who lives among New York, Los Angeles and London — talked about returning to network television and saying goodbye to Kalinda.
The first is that the president exists in a cloud of signifiers: his infomercial hand gestures, his practiced facial expressions, his broad accent and narrow diction and relentless catchphrases, to say nothing of his hair and skin.
Among the craft stalls, we meet 20-something Jack, who arrived at the scene in his teens via the leisurely world of dandyism, itself an offshoot of the Chappism mini-movement (think waxed mustaches and willfully archaic diction).
A slick-talking man of means, Strand rode into the story on a wave of florid diction, verbally dismantling a fellow prisoner in an internment camp before taking a shine to Nick (Frank Dillane), Madison's heroin-addicted son.
The text is set with impressive clarity, and Mr. Gilfry sings every phrase with crisp diction and dramatic point, delivering phrases with virile energy, sudden bluster, or, during vulnerable moments, an aching confusion that takes you by surprise.
Goneril (Elizabeth Marvel, overreaching as usual) has an American twang, while Regan (Aisling O'Sullivan) speaks with an Irish brogue, and Ruth Wilson, doing her very best as Cordelia, and later as the Fool, has clear, British stage diction.
The Juliet of this romance is Natalie Perera, as Anita Panchouri, the dutiful daughter of a Trinidad businessman, Ram Panchouri (Kabir Bedi), a character of grandiose ideas and the Shakespearean diction to present them with the appropriate drama.
His assistant is Despina, the maid who works for the two sisters, and here the wonderful Kelli O'Hara, a Broadway star who brings savvy dramatic instincts, a lovely soprano voice and quite good Italian diction to the role.
Changing one's voice is a motif in Smith's fiction, a new accent and diction the best costume in which to disguise an identity better left behind, and the narrator's mother has all but scrubbed away her native patois.
" Reviewing Mr. Parra's "Emergency Poems" in 1972, the scholar Alexander Coleman wrote that Mr. Parra and the other anti-poets "dread the very idea of Poetry and its attendant metaphors, inflated diction, romantic yearning, obscurity and empty nobility.
The jury praised Bowles' brilliant and creative use of an exaggeratedly antiquated diction and syntax to craft a self-consciously ornate and mannered text that succeeds in capturing the comic archness of Kracht's prose style for English-language readers.
"Rootabaga Stories," Carl Sandburg Grossly underappreciated, this is in my view the best of all children's books — wildly, passionately imaginative, gently moral and quintessentially American, both in its diction and in a certain rough-hewn but kindly common sense.
All together, it forces you to consider how this particular slice of web diction originally lived on the pages of prehistoric forums like SomethingAwful, before eventually making their homes in extremely public places, like say, Kim Kardashian's Instagram account.
The Tony Award-winning actress, 70, called the composer, 71, a "sad sack" in an interview with The New York Times Magazine after Webber reportedly criticized her diction in the musical Evita in his 2018 book, Unmasked: A Memoir.
Tiziana de Rogatis, a critic whose book on Ferrante's diction came out in the United States this month, said that Ferrante, like Morante, is a sophisticated thinker and writer who chooses to write plainly and empathetically to be understood.
This conscious yoking of "lords" and "commons" (high and low subjects, high and low diction) is most impressive when the rhetorical volume is turned down, as in "Girl at Christmas," the one flawless poem in this very promising book.
Playing with diction and syntax and structure, and trying to spin words out into a continuous silken thread to achieve the appropriate effect in a story is hands down the part of writing that gives me the deepest pleasure.
But you won't necessarily get the subtleties of O'Neill's language, those incredible flights upward and then down into the gutter, in this production, because so much of the talk is sacrificed to incomprehensible diction and to keeping the action going.
Following complaints from patrons that it was hard to make out what they were hearing, even though the company has diction coaches who drill the casts in singing clearly, Opera Theater began to project the English words being sung in 2005.
For a long time, especially in an English academy like Oxford or on the BBC, students and broadcasters were taught a standardized, "proper" form of English called Received Pronunciation that tidied up and rounded off diction like a polished stone.
Charles M. Blow I know that there are things of graver consequence in Donald Trump's regime than his diction, but as a person whose vocation concerns him with language, I am simply appalled by Trump's savage mauling of that language.
Italians soon became used to hearing "extraordinary voices with perfect diction" at the cinema, Di Cola said, and it wasn't long before even Italian films began to be dubbed to achieve this effect, a practice that continued well into the 1970s.
Highest note in Met history and all, Thomas Adès's score was a force of wild virtuosity and ever-mounting anxiety; diction and characterization did fall by the wayside, but neither so much as some critics would have had you think.
You know, the Medicis in the 15th-century Italy would hire these people to paint them and write about them—the diction was all flowery—and I wanted to do that in the current age and apply it to suburbia and total mediocrity.
Strangely, he spoke in a posh British accent, so I assume that Benedict Cumberbatch was in a back room somewhere fielding our questions or that Chesty, who used to have a raspy, slick American voice, has been taking diction lessons from Madonna.
They had the grim purpose and folded hands of funeral directors, which made for an odd fit with their honking, purposeful diction; they were talking about college quarterbacks in the voices of people trying to order drinks in a very crowded bar.
Clear-sighted as it is, Faiz's poetry — celebrated for its ability to balance a delicate, classical formalism of diction and structure with political awareness and a conversational tone — is unremittingly tender: a love letter to a place and a people beset by violence.
His performance was early in the day at noon–a less than ideal time–yet he utilized every opportunity to show exactly what he is made of: unbridled confidence, intelligent diction and a dexterous artistry that pushes and pulls between rapping and singing.
I grew up with a father who was a theater producer at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, and I was obsessed with going to the theater on my days off from school, even going to class with him—voice and diction, directing, acting.
Xi, though more prone to depart from his talking points than his predecessor Hu Jintao, spent decades navigating treacherous Communist Party politics, and speaks in the formal diction of Chinese statesmanship, where words and linguistic formulae for defining diplomatic relationships matter above all.
He's netted comparisons to admitted influences like Earl Sweatshirt and MF Doom with his resonant, monotonal delivery that's at once nonchalant and athletic, as well as with his eloquent diction, arcane vocabulary, and his seemingly effortless ability to stack internal and end rhymes.
Dense yet airy, with biting diction and dramatic dynamic shadings, the Trinity choir sang a furious "Surely he hath borne our griefs" and an "All we like sheep have gone astray" of rollicking, almost celebratory intensity, egged on by a muscular, unrelenting orchestra.
The upshot was that the boots, Gabriel's departure (or, more accurately, capture), the pantry raid and the swarm that surrounded Team Rick last week were all connected to this unnamed garbage army, which is given to scavenging, meaningful hand signals and odd diction.
Typewritten correspondence became part of her curriculum by age five and, today, letters she wrote to friends and family—mostly adults many years her senior—offer insight into Follett's deep love of the natural world, talent for diction, and disinterest in same-aged playmates.
While his Boeing had gold-plated seat belts, Trump was sometimes pictured sitting on it while munching a burger from a fast food chain while his earthy diction and politically incorrect stump speeches positioned him as a man of unsophisticated, and certainly not elite, tastes.
Ms. Rodda, 29, is an operatic soprano; she is pursuing a doctorate in music at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in a five-year fellowship focusing on classical music voice, and teaching diction in the voice department at Brooklyn College.
As they build out their wild what ifs, the authors of speculative fiction draft legislation: They draw up regulations and establish cabinet agencies and sub-agencies, often employing a diction eerily reminiscent of real-life government and politics — the eeriness being very much the point.
Rumors had circulated for decades that contestants were being pressured to provide sexual favors to "dark saints" in return for money to pay for the wardrobe, diction classes, dental work, breast implants and other cosmetic surgeries matter-of-factly required of would-be Miss Venezuelas.
A partial exception is Priyanka Chopra, who appears not in a bathing suit but in a succession of slinky dresses that signify — along with her purring diction, her muscle-headed minions and her collection of champagne flutes and martini glasses — her character's supervillain status.
And the voice careens crazily, from a just-the-facts tone to awkwardly elevated diction (there are no homes in this book, only "domiciles") to lamentable efforts to introduce local color (the "ragamuffins" who "do-si-do" around the place until they need to "vamoose").
Duff, with affected old Hollywood diction, plays Tate as a woebegone mother-to-be, helplessly awaiting husband Roman Polanski's return as she's tormented by nightmares of a man known only as "Charlie," who she thinks is out to get her, her unborn child, and her friends.
"Table 20" is immediately followed by a poem called "View from an Aeron Chair," in which de la Torre alters her diction to create a faux-reflective tone that toys with description while selling the chair's perspective: A half-view of greenery, cut off by blinds.
De la Torre's poems aim for immediacy, often beginning mid-action or mid-description, while adopting a tenor of straight-ahead familiarity, no matter how jarring or ridiculous what's actually being said might be – and there is a sly range of diction quietly at work throughout.
It's easy to assume that this poor diction is just a way of fudging half-baked lyrics or poorly-written scripts, and it's certainly true that there are times when it's obvious rappers have found a lazy shortcut that means they don't have to really say anything.
His face transmitted, in full, his commentary on this text: Only translators devoid of style, those who lack even a rudimentary grasp of the connotative powers of language, much less those with any sense of sex appeal, would animate erotic verse with diction such as this.
On Sunday, just before she went to dress for her final performance, Ms. Ambrose, who is leaving to shoot M. Night Shyamalan's new series for Apple, spoke, with perfect diction, about saying goodbye to Eliza — and the boots she wouldn't mind snagging on her way out.
Though the English words of the translation (by Yveta Synek Graff and Robert T. Jones) were projected above the stage as the cast members sang them, the diction of the singers was good enough that for whole stretches I could ignore the screen and just listen.
The dazzling literary critic William Empson, who was perhaps more alive to shades of diction than anyone else who has ever analyzed English literature, discussed the evolution of the word "dog" in his 1951 book, The Structure of Complex Words, making points directly pertinent to Trump's peculiar usage.
For years, rosewood gavel in hand, she presided over the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of treasures — teasing, cajoling, seducing and ever so genteelly shaming in the unimpeachable diction of her native England: "I'll wait," she might tell a recalcitrant bidder in her foremost schoolmarm tones.
There is the ghost of the nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (the menaced but curious traveller, afoot in a strange, forbidding landscape); of Walter Benjamin (the elaborate analogies and formal diction); of Thomas Bernhard (the tendency toward insistent, comic exaggeration); of Peter Handke; and, above all, of Kafka.
Because the characters, Aden included, are sometimes speaking in English and sometimes in Arabic (Aden is complimented on her elegant, formal Arabic), Wray might see his task as very much that of a translator: the rendering of a placeless, neutral diction that doesn't draw too much attention to itself.
Born in Brooklyn and reared in the Red Hook section, where many of his relatives were longshoremen and where he developed the working-class diction that became part of his appeal, Mr. Santos often played rough-hewed characters with an aura of toughness mellowed by earnestness or beleaguerment.
It's a tragedy in the Aristotelian sense, charting, in an irresistibly beautiful and densely lyrical poetic diction, the rise and fall of the king's most privileged nobleman or chief over a 24-hour period on what he knows is meant to be the last day of his life.
But perfect fretboard diction and the ability to play literally anything on sight would only be the foundation of a superstar career that spanned decades, establishing him as one of the premiere singers, songwriters, jingle-men, session players, television personalities — and along the way, collaborators — of all-time, in any genre.
Nyong'o's evil "Other" voice is based on a real vocal condition Nyong'o sounds nothing like herself as her evil twin, named Red — and as it turns out, she based her terrifying diction on a real-life medical condition called spasmodic dysphonia, which can be caused by emotional or physical trauma.
The diction, as so often in modern attempts to render ancient voices, wobbles between being strenuously high ("the place where my memory lives is a shadowy, ambiguous place, comforted by soft, eroding edges") and, sometimes, jarringly banal ("Once he learned that I was preparing to murder my husband, Aegisthus became serious").
It means something, surely, that despite his role as the head futurist on the forward-thinking Warriors, the music of Steve Kerr's heart is still Pearl Jam, songs of great emotion and frankly appalling diction that were created when Kerr was still a player winning championships for the Chicago Bulls.
It has simultaneously become more embedded in American pop culture—we compare Donald Trump's diction to that of a mob boss; we celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the premiere of The Sopranos and the developing prequel film; we watch mob-related reality television shows—as its actual sway has dwindled.
NEWARK — The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra began its concert on Friday at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center here by tuning, as usual, to a common A. But there was one other thing that needed fine-tuning before the performance, of music by Tchaikovsky and Barber, could begin: the audience's intonation and diction.
Played on a two-tier set that looks initially like a bombed-out 1940s house but is abstract enough to assume the timelessness of any wrecked environment, it casts Simplicius (a trouser role, sung with impressive diction, stamina and credibility by Stephanie Corley) as a 1940s schoolboy lost in fantasies about the past.
Though Brit and Madge are hardly the strongest singers, there's no chance you could listen to their music and not know it was them; Ariana is the same, except she's got that dolphin sensitivity-level range to back it up, too—even though, with her diction, we can only understand about 12 percent of what she's saying.
Her taut British diction makes a one-woman play out of the orphan girl's love story, which starts out with all the young-adult tropes — the poor, good-hearted child abused by the spoiled, wealthy boy and his classist keepers, each distinguished by his or her own idiosyncratic cadence — but progresses into what many consider the prototypical Victorian novel.
On Sunday, April 16, accompanied by the eloquent pianist Malcolm Martineau, she appears at Alice Tully Hall, performing selections by Wolf and Strauss that are set to showcase her opulent, dusky tone and her obsessive attention to diction, down to vowels that she can brighten or cloud over at will to match the emotion of the text.
Abu Hamdan will be presenting a new iteration of the final part, called Contra-diction: Speech against itself, of his Aural Contract trilogy this week at the Festival of Voice in Cardiff, Wales, UK. The trilogy looks at the function of the voice in law and how it's changing with new technologies, increased border control, and all-pervasive government and corporate surveillance systems.
But then line 6, which goes on to restate and, so to speak, more deeply color the text-as-textile metaphor, retroactively reveals that the full stop ending line 5 was a false one; more properly, it should have been a comma, for the fabric called HERE is further revealed, metaleptically, as: Rien qu'une voix dans l'aire With its stains, blushes, and slim- Jim diction.
Ms. Peters, who would sing with the Met 515 times over 35 vigorous years, was internationally renowned for her high, silvery voice (in private, she could hit a high A, two and a half octaves above middle C); her clarion diction in a flurry of languages; her attractive stage presence; and, by virtue of the fact that she and television came to prominence at about the same time, her wide popular appeal.
The language deployed in these forms synthesizes business policy jargon, art-speak, batty instructions, dream descriptions, and over-exuberant promo copy, delivered largely in the mode of direct address, as well as a conversational diction that might best be described as the observations of the lost, as in "Table 20," which consists of a Bather interviewing an Aspiring Lifeguard: Bather: If you avert your eyes from something your/eyes can't help but see, are you seeing it or/not?
Ferry's creamily elegant rendering of the epic, which tries to "correct" the text's oddness, is likely to leave you wondering why critics both ancient and modern have scratched their heads over Virgil's verse—his occasionally jarring or archaic diction (mocked by one Roman littérateur who made his point by writing a parody of the poet's early work); his "tasteless striving for effect," as Augustus's friend and general Agrippa complained; his "use of words too forcible for his thoughts," as A. E. Housman put it two millennia later.
Over the course of Eight Years, you can watch Coates develop the particular habits of diction and syntax that he falls back on in service of this quest: the repeated rendering of the black self as a black body, upon which racism works with physical force; the use of the word plunder to describe how white supremacy takes possession of black wealth and labor; the preacher-like repetition of sentence structure in a long cascading litany of American sins; the which is to say that links abstract, morally charged ideas to concrete action, illuminating both.

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