Sentences with word «diction»

And their sense of simplicity of diction and rhythmic momentum also enables them to capture the beauty of more celebratory moments:

In Diction Deco traditional techniques are introduced on a need - to - know basis, through a kind of lingering in the elementary state, and are orchestrated into non-committal balances.

-- What factors in our national climate could create the on diction for a storm of Typhoon Trump's magnitude to arise?

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.

«A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory,» his brother says to him with perfect diction as he rolls away on a train to go to war.

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

«I have always taken pride in my enunciation, I speak the Queen's English and am appalled that some may think that an elected official from Harlem can not speak with proper diction.

Pleasant and professional phone skills with good diction, tone, and pace...

The blog Bene Diction Blogs On has covered Todd Bentley extensively over the last few years as well.

Will Ferrell has a ball being a dick with sharp diction as Megamind, a blue - skinned visitor from another planet who comes to Earth as a force for evil.

Passionate about excellent client service 2 - 5 years previous experience as receptionist or similar front office role Exceptional phone and interpersonal skills Clear diction and knowledge of the...

Poor diction is an entirely avoidable failing.

This was the opinion Slate author Mark Joseph Stern cited as an example when he wrote, «Gorsuch's prose has curdled into a glop of cutesy idioms, pointless metaphors, and garbled diction that's exhausting to read and impossible to take seriously.»

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.

As for using contractions in contracts, however, it's unlikely that they'll gain widespread support because their benefits — improved diction and euphony — are less critical in contract drafting.

Everybody is so charmed by Yankee Stadium public address announcer Bob Sheppard, with his teeth - clenched, perfect - diction English.

Our second stop was at Enamel Diction where we received a Dove Dry Spray fragrance prescribed to us by an astrologist to align with our personal senses, along with a color horoscope with hand picked mani colors to complement it.

«This is definitely a man's world,» she decides, as she practices her «non-regional diction» and, against her better judgment, falls head over heels for selfish boor Burgundy.

The opening paragraphs illustrate everything readers love about Jackson's writing: the lyrical Southern cadence, strong imagery and unique diction that immediately brings her characters to life.

To make sure the reader gets the joke, Lowry's blast from the past includes pointedly charming retro pen and ink illustrations; wavy old - fashioned fonts, and alliterative, adverb - laden diction («A Novel Nefariously Written & Ignominiously Illustrated by the Author»)... To be truly delectable, The Willoughbys must work for children who haven't read Toby Tyler, Or, Ten Weeks with the Circus; Ragged Dick; Pollyanna; Heidi; or The Bobbsey Twins and Baby May.

State of Concept is proud to present its inaugural exhibition, entitled Diction Deco, a solo show by Greek artist Aliki Panagiotopoulou.

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.

Conducts special classes on speech drills, drama diction, and dialects by using voice exercises

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.

Discussing a drag - racer automobile offers little excuse for hillbilly diction, particularly when «nothing faster» creates a wide field for competition.

Between static promo shots of office buildings, Vincenzo De Palma extolled the security of investing in income - producing real assets in lazy diction, as if an up - and - comer like him lacked the time to pronounce every consonant.

The second, though, is perhaps a bit more relevant to my view on the matter, outside of my actual diction.

The Muslim version of the Golden Rule rolled eloquently off her tongue in perfect Arabic diction.

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.

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

Shalom has always been the goal, whether we use that particular diction or not.

He used it repeatedly, and it was from the New Testament that it was taken over into modern diction.

Spiritually, however, it is a stagnant time, as Updike's coarsened diction and blighted commercial landscape reveal.

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.

For some, it's age: High liturgies use organs, old music, and archaic diction; low worship is guitars, CCM, and the New Living Translation.

The self - absorbed diction is ridiculous «God loves this country» as if he / she doesn't love other countries.

The same principle holds regarding diction.

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.»

The accent no doubt helped him rise to prominence in an age that prized diction and elocution.

He refuses to take speech lessons, for instance, which friends have suggested he do to improve his Deep South 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.

Lord Dobbs, who wrote House of Cards, said all dialogue was clear on the page and crossbencher Baroness Kidron, who directed the Bridget Jones sequel, suggested viewers should value «fine performance over fine diction.»