Sentences with phrase «in diction»

He was awkward and blunt, yet almost formal in his diction.

(Any word that sounds like «oh mommy» lends itself to playful flourish in diction.)

Sometimes that makes you think more globally in your diction and plotting.

Richard Carter, the epitome of public - relations perfection in dress and in diction (South African, when he isn't doing a fine impression of my Michigander nasal quacking), recalled endless discussions over naming the exciting new shape, designed by Andreas Thurner.

There's drama in diction!

For this former English teacher, however, I think there is power in words, and I'd rather see someone employ creativity in diction rather than resort to overused curse words.

One needs, therefore, both privately and publicly to «renew his covenant with God,» or in diction now heard less often than in an earlier day, to «lay all upon the altar.»

In dealing as theologians with the Christian faith as a body of truth, we have often been too abstract, too limited in our diction to traditional terminology, possibly too afraid to be simple lest our peers might suspect our lack of theological acumen!

Furthermore, that this is the product of his own thought, stated at least approximately in his words rather than in the diction of the early church, is borne out by the fact that we find the term used much less frequently in the letters and in Acts than in the Gospels.

Although, as we noted, naturalism and humanism tend to think of sin as an outmoded concept and talk instead about maladjustment, insecurity, neurosis, or antisocial conduct, the term remains in the diction of Christians.

Not exact matches

Even a leader with perfect diction and a background in rhetorical strategy can't hope to win the influence of his or her peers through speeches and arguments alone.

Obscure Dutch actor Frederik de Groot, previously observed head - butting surly criminals into submission on the detective series Bureau Kruislaan, rose to unlikely fame advising Canadians in clipped diction to «Save — your money» by moving their deposits to ING Direct.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

So why should my choice of diction, used in appropriate context no less, devalue the strength of my arguments?

The poser to every sensitive member of the race is, in Shakespearean diction, «whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?».

But always within limits; there is no complete freedom for anybody, It is important to affirm man's freedom of will, or as it was put in the older diction, to say that man «is a free moral agent,» for otherwise all idea of morality and of sin collapses.

We owe him a great debt also for his literary gifts, for what might have been a mere piecing together in a unified whole in which one feels that Jesus» poetic, moving diction has been marvelously preserved.

Candler's program was built upon a diagnostic exercise called «speech assessment» and a cluster of courses in voice, sermon delivery, and diction.

It is regrettable that they should be marred by the recurrent slippage in poetic diction, the indulgence in heightening paraphrase in the guise of translation, and the instances of tendentiousness and anachronism.

In constitutional discourse, with its stodgy diction of doctrine and precedent, pride is typically disguised.

See especially Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (McGraw - Hill Book Company, Inc., 1964), and his «The Meaning of the Word «Literal,»» in L. C. Knights and Basil Cottle, eds., Metaphor and Symbol (Butterworth & Co., Ltd., 1961).

Quotations from the American Standard Version of the Revised Bible, copyrighted 1929, and the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946 and 1952, are used by permission of the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. References to these versions are indicated in the footnotes by the initials A. S. V. and R. S. V. I have used these and also the King James Version, selecting in each instance the diction which seemed to me best to fit the point under discussion.

Thus in his essay on Psalms, Alter raises questions about authorship, dating and the sociological context, but then devotes the bulk of his attention to issues of genre, convention, style, structure, diction, literary allusion and thematic organization.

It's not just in the topics chosen (see me here blog - blathering about the ukulele), but in the chatty voice, the supersized diction, and, most of all, the completion: A blog entry must, by its nature, gesture at thoughts it lacks the time, will, and form to develop.

Thus, by simplicity of diction, appropriate naming, skill in evoking mood and emphasis upon concerns which affect every human being, Tolkien has created an accessible world, a world that both invites and directs us.

By simplicity of diction, appropriate naming, skill in evoking mood and emphasis upon concerns which affect every human being, Tolkien has created an accessible world that both invites and directs us.

But I had been told so much about his wonderful sound, his precise reporting and the elegance of his diction that I went to the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan and listened to recordings of his broadcasts of several events from the late 1930s.

I know just enough that I could follow the gist of his famous L'Equipe interview in the original and his diction is truly amazing.

By his outlandish claims and ill - chosen diction, I doubt if anyone was taken aback few days ago when the former Aviation Minister released his diatribe against President Muhammad Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Rauf Aregbesola all in his struggle to castigate the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba AbdulRashid Adewale Akanbi.

«I have to apologize for not dressing up for your visit,» she continued with precise diction in a deep, lilting voice.

In order to build conversational rapport with a woman, identify the types of trance words she is using and implement them into your diction.

Kingsley, in peacock roles like these, seems to be turning ever more into a lesser Gielgud: all exquisite diction and no blood whatsoever.

If anything, he seems a bit over-rehearsed in the latter especially, taking on an affected, prim tone and diction that fits the character but always feels a bit stilted.

There are jarring moments: The maid's unexplained tears, the handyman's running in the middle of the night, the old woman with the hat - wearing young black man and the emphasis of the «white» diction used by all the above.

The smug, stilted dialogue sounds as if it were written in Greek, run through Google Translate, then smoothed out with diction from Anglo - American plays of the 1950s.

Think Marlon Brando behind his desk in The Godfather, or Anthony Hopkins standing in his cell in The Silence Of The Lambs, unblinking and with perfect posture and precise diction.

While Voldemort moves jerkily, not quite at home in his body, his diction is supple and edged with cold steel.

For a screenwriter, period pieces tend to be difficult — especially if they're set in medieval times — dialogue being restricted to olden diction isn't the easiest to write.

Scenes such as an encounter with a bearskin - wearing dentist deep in the territory who seeks to trade Rooster and Mattie a man's corpse are invented for the film, though the cadence of the language and unusual diction feels lifted straight from the book.

In tandem with the storytelling approach of his director, Phoenix too opts to exhibit without saying much — Joe's scarred torso, mumbling diction and fifty - yard stare suggest the accumulated destructive weight of a lifetime of violent acts.

Her likes are tap dancing, flowers, and proper diction, and her dislikes are apparently the sort of easy - to - spot freaks you see committing crimes in movies moreso than real life.

«We write by guess, more than any stated rule,» he said in 1731, «and form every man his diction, either according to his humour and caprice.»

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Teachers must go beyond encouraging off - hand, initial responses from student readers, must push them to explore exactly what the author has done with syntax and diction that elicited such a response in them.

Taking a page from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's book Understanding by Design, I started crafting tasks designed to assess students» ability to construct meaning by replicating key procedures — analyzing diction and syntax, looking for patterns and contrasts, generating thesis statements — learned in class.

Performance in writing assignments: substance in analysis; logical organization; effectiveness in structural design; specific and persuasive arguments; precise diction; rhetorical effectiveness, etc..

A single path to follow in life, one that informs every decision she makes, and every word she says in her distinct English diction.

The voice control system lets you access COMAND ® hard - drive navigation in a pinch, and includes a learning feature that adjusts to your diction.

He also referred to me as Miss Brown - Nose - in - a-Book and occasionally as Miss Emily - Big - Head - Diction.

The juxtaposition of the violence depicted in both epics with Steven's crisply refined diction promises a unique listening experience.