Sentences with phrase «diction from»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Polish from Enamel Diction / / Bag and Sunglasses from Satine / / Dove Dry Spray / / and my cute placard from lunch

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.

If Spielberg struggles to create a palpable tension from Graham's travails as a woman struggling to achieve the respect that her position should afford her, it has little to do with Streep's performance, all stiff cheekbones, barely stifled anxiety, and delightful, at times incredibly suspenseful fluttering diction.

It is the mismatch of stereotypes that provides much of the comedy: Chris's best friend with his, mostly, improvised dialogue and the septuagenarian diction and speech patterns emerging from the servants and hat man who interact all too briefly with our hero at the party mixes absurdity with blackly comic moments that delight and add the right amount of quirky fear to the formula.

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.

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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.

When given again, this performance assessment will contain the following revisions: Your summative assessment requires you to update the tragedy and demonstrate your knowledge of diction and rhetorical appeals / strategies by developing a speech from Desdemona's or Iago's point of view.

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.

After that, I changed my style of interaction, from my diction to my sentence structure, to more closely reflect the language interactions my students were used to.

Besides rural highland setting and cultural conventions, they're drawn together by mountain diction and darkness — timbering accident, revenge murder, lifeless marriage, general transgressive behavior, thwarted yearning, birds fall from the sky.

A week later, Kerry's father died from ad - diction - related complications.

At the same time, through the operatic delivery, the performances test the speeches» original functionality, making them in - operative, while exploring the role of the spoken word as it is mediated across a continuum of expressivity: from the weighty depths reached through the grain of the voice to the artificial diction endemic to the language of opera and political speech alike.

While Belag may have eschewed the grid for allover gestures, Stephan revels in it, honing his visual diction of topographical organics and blocky shapes from the mid-00's into dense woven patterns.

That diction decision came straight from the top in early October when Derek Jeter, in his first public statements as team CEO, declared he didn't like the word.

From choosing the template, to formatting the page, and even determining what type of diction to use, you can get lost in the sea of choices.

Everything from the syntax and diction to the layout of the resume was something new to me and just incredible.

While beginning her corporate career, she pursued and completed a M.A. in Speech and Interpersonal Communications from New York University where she also served as an Instructor in Voice and Diction / Public Speaking.