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Example sentences for: diction

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The pelado was a verbal artist who, according to Samuel Ramos, “has created a dialect of his own, a diction which abounds in ordinary words, but he gives these words a new meaning.
Elsewhere, Anderson uses Mamet actors and Mamety diction, but he's the Anti-Mamet.
Taking page 17 again, I was reminded that Giles is rather given to semi-serious poetic diction at times, and we find him referring to the presence of water in the Finke River as “the stream purling over its stony floor” or, quoting some bygone poet, “brightly the brook through the green leaflets, giddy with joyousness, dances along.”
Any discussion of what constitutes style must encompass tributaries as diverse as the lavatory humor found in Gargantua & Pantagruel and the exquisite diction presiding over Belinda's toilette in The Rape of the Lock .
Better yet, the dubbed Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, and company made me conscious of how I had originally “heard” Superman I , and of how I commonly ignore what pitch and range (apart from diction and idiom) contribute to any language.