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Example sentences for: diction
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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.
The script, a bare-bones affair with amusingly movieish period diction ("What manner of instruments are these?"
Elsewhere, Anderson uses Mamet actors and Mamety diction, but he's the Anti-Mamet.
Within the past five or six years, however, I have observed that elegance has come to be a matter of phase rather than diction.
It may be true that Boswell's formal, highly generalized diction, quite possibly encouraged by Malone, is no longer to our taste, that is, not the diction of twentieth-century biographers; but if so, so much the worse for 20th-century readers of biography.
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