Sentences with phrase «diction rather»

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.

Not exact matches

I'd rather not work extra to attempt to avoid insulting the delicate sensibilities just because they choose to limit their diction more than I do.

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.

Barfield's «poetic diction» parallels the later Heidegger's call for a true «naming of the Gods» which would be a poetic, rather than metaphysical, «dwelling on the earth.»