| 单词 | diction |
| 例句 | Inside I found things long forgotten: my mother fitting words together for a song, diction for the stage, three recipes for tea to calm nerves and promote sleep, finger scales for the lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bruce pronounced every word with exaggerated diction and spite. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I began by imitating their accents, using their diction, trusting their every direction. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His diction is perfect, his pacing not rushed in the least. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I think you mean that when someone does something well—as in obeying the rules of proper diction—we should use a code. What do you suggest?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Shukumar was soon bored; he was unable to decipher the literary diction, and couldn’t join the rest of the audience as they sighed and nodded solemnly after certain phrases. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A “tall courtly black man with Shakespearean diction and the stare of an eagle,” Asa Philip Randolph, close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, headed the 35,000-strong Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He urged Chicago hostesses to hire some French chefs to improve their culinary diction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I knew the relaxed patois of the South Side and the high-minded diction of the Ivy League, and now on top of that I spoke Lawyer, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Amaranta felt so uncomfortable with her defective diction and her habit of using euphemisms to designate everything that she would always speak gibberish in front of her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When my father finally spoke, he had no trace of a Jamaican accent and no Jamaican diction at all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His diction could be so contagious that even non-PIH-ers, especially when in his company, adopted the same phrases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The falsity of this, and even the falsity of the diction —guy? — pulls me up short. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It is something about his voice, not his pitch or his rapid-fire, caffeinated diction, but the voice itself—the familiarity of it, I guess, but also its inexhaustibility. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Our parents had drilled into us the importance of using proper diction, of saying “going” instead of “goin’” and “isn’t” instead of “ain’t.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He made a huge sign of the cross, lowered his head and recited, again with perfect Latin diction, the Confiteor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up on my Victorian flourishes, my antique diction, my girls’ school propriety. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Clean, polite, nice voice, good diction, a pretty decent-looking fellow, with a very disarming smile—and in the beginning he smiled quite a lot. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved with their mother to Northern California, where she taught diction and voice control. Olivia de Havilland, "Gone With the Wind" star, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The chorus sang with full-bodied sound and crisp diction. Gianandrea Noseda Conducts Beethoven at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Polenzani performed the work with complete command — and impressively clear German diction — and without a break. Music Review: A Swagger and Some Bluster for the Sake of Telling Stories 2011-04-04T21:28:36Z Brown’s diction, her bearing on the page, is precise but unfussy. Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z And Milo has Horace, an erstwhile co-worker and a more aggressive version of Milo himself, but with a virtuosity, scrambling cultural references and modes of diction that put Milo to shame. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z Critics worldwide praised him for his bell-clear diction; dry, sophisticated humor; and nuanced portrayals of characters originally written as outsize satires. John Reed, Master of Gilbert and Sullivan?s Patter Songs, Dies at 94 2010-02-28T04:19:00Z A well-traveled polyglot, he also had a parallel career as the company’s staff diction coach, a post he held for some three decades before his retirement in 2009. Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z His diction was impeccable, his phrasing sensitive and honest. Music Review: In a Tale of Deliverance, It?s Moses to the Rescue 2011-04-22T22:56:01Z I really idolised the way he took his lyrics, his diction and his softness. Bobby Bland: 'Blues and soul are one and the same' – a classic interview 2013-06-25T12:24:00Z In "Pi", Kate Bush sings to 137 decimal places, rapturously, yet her singular lyrics are anchored by her southern English diction: she writes as unpretentiously as she speaks. My hero: Kate Bush by David Mitchell 2011-01-01T00:05:43Z Influenced by the Abstract Expressionist painters and the French Symbolists, they used street diction and cinematic techniques in their work, jump cuts and crosscuts, flashbacks and odd juxtapositions. John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z With his craggy visage and papery diction, his Holmes is a study in wry, intellectual charisma. Review: For Ian McKellen’s ‘Mr. Holmes,’ Retirement Is Afoot 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Voigt, who like most American singers performed in musicals in high school and has a penchant for excellent English diction in song, often includes American standards and show tunes in her recitals. Deborah Voigt to Play ?Annie Get Your Gun? Lead 2010-07-22T21:29:00Z Jammer attributes the difference, in the first instance, to a shift in diction. Are you ready for the British MCs? 2010-07-29T22:34:00Z He sang with robust sound, honesty, intelligence and impressive Italian diction. Music Review | 'La Boh?me: The Gang?s All Here: Mimi, Rodolfo and Zeffirelli 2010-02-22T06:01:00Z All the performers seemed at ease on stage, with communicative singing, excellent diction, intelligent phrasing and well-calibrated acting, neither too broad nor too subtle. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z He praised Mr. Levine for being “tender without being sentimental, calm but not lacking in passion, writing in a diction as clear and lucid as spring water.” Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z When aroused, the characters "talk nasty" but they also employ an elevated poetic diction to dignify base urges, like the shepherds in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z Sutherland juxtaposes varieties of obviously poetic diction—declamatory, violent, meek, sarcastic—with actual voices of worldly authority, voices that feel menacing in their general tone of understatement. A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The opera is sung in English – baffling at the Komische where the long-standing policy has been to sing everything in German, and even more baffling when much of English diction is so poor. American Lulu – review 2012-10-08T17:00:02Z It is a masterclass in the strange variability of modern language and diction. Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-09T23:06:18Z The music mostly moves in pungent block chords that let the words come through clearly, sung here with robust sound and crisp diction. Music Review: A Symposium for Young People?s Chorus and New Conductors 2012-02-17T23:41:15Z Settings of Yeats and Joyce proved a handsome showcase for Mr. Gunn’s velvet sound and clear diction; Ms. Gunn’s arrangements balanced piano and string quartet deftly. Music Review: Nathan and Julie Gunn With Pacifica Quartet at Zankel Hall 2013-04-24T21:51:23Z She enters their world of bright colours and moral contrasts with confident ease, and pitches her ideas and diction at the appropriate level – "writing the height", as a children's author once described it. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z Verse, diction, rhetorical patterns — attention to these matters is what allowed a play to live again. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The lines kept taking her to her luminous high range, though all the shimmering took a toll on her English diction. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z The Monteverdi Choir sang it with crystalline diction and extraordinary flexibility, giving individual words deliberate dabs of color. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z Given how good his pictures are, Steig’s flair for diction seems unfair—he was a brilliant writer. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z She earns as many conspiratorial laughs from her posture — a diva’s raised chin, the stalking walk, the arms waving airily as if some Moscow-Bollywood musical — as from her imperiously droll diction. On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars 2013-05-10T21:01:31Z Jared Harris as Lane Pryce, the man with the tweed vest and tweedy diction. Monday morning "Mad Men" 2010-08-09T17:38:00Z Instead, with diction that is often measured and biblical, they mingle regrets and desires, hope and disillusionment, spiritual aspirations and carnal appreciation. Music Review: Leonard Cohen at the Barclays Center 2012-12-22T00:28:21Z Cuénod's suave, reedy tone and immaculate diction made him an exquisite, sensitive interpreter of mélodies. Hugues Cu?nod obituary 2010-12-08T19:10:00Z This is another language with different diction and different sentence structures and syntax. 7 Roles. 14 Actors. 2 Languages. 1 Stage. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Do close readings, examine syntax and diction, and you will know all you ever need to know! Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes fully alive in this new edition 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Yet for all his easygoing charm and wit, his old-world manners and a carefully acquired upper-class diction, Clifton Fadiman still sometimes felt himself to be a kind of impostor. A daughter’s loving homage to her famed, flawed father 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The clarity of her film-making diction is a marvel – even, or perhaps especially, when the nature of the story itself remains murkily unrevealed. Archipelago ? review 2011-03-03T15:01:00Z The judges cited his poems for their "casual, anecdotal worldliness and natural diction." Poet Henri Cole wins $50,000 Jackson prize 2012-04-04T22:59:11Z Mr. Pisaroni’s German diction was clean, and his choice of texts — predominantly by Heine and Goethe — hinted at a discerning reader and thinker. Luca Pisaroni in Concert at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Her diction is mostly clear, but as the play is so language-based, she struggles to keep up with Blanchett who conveys the intention and subtext of every single word in the script. The Maids - review 2013-06-09T03:47:23Z But the telling — or Flaubert’s telling — must studiously avoid falsehood, which can be betrayed in high-mindedness or sloppy diction. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Then the album’s postscript, under a minute long, revisits a lingering childhood wound with a child’s diction: “My Mummy’s Dead.” Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Padmore’s diction was impeccable, relishing the sounds of consonants without affection. Mark Padmore, Jonathan Biss give intoxicating performance Melodies are often complex; accompaniments are dense; vocalists favor the musical line over crisp diction. Review: For Once, Singing of Complete and Utter Clarity 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z When I responded to my friend’s tweet about books and emoji, I relied on diction for the first reply. Can you write a best-seller using only emoji? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Specifically, they had to slow down and use clearer diction to deliver expository dialogue during the opening scenes. Keegan Theatre finds Irish audiences enthusiastic about ‘A Few Good Men’ He visited the vendors around the narrow lanes near the Jama Masjid mosque in Old Delhi, speaking to them while aiming to grasp their diction and vocabulary, she said. Saeed Jaffrey, Actor in ‘Gandhi’ and ‘The Man Who Would Be King,’ Dies at 86 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Kyra Humphrey, whose contralto voice is affecting in timbre if not entirely even across the range, projected the work's one solo movement with strong feeling and excellent diction. Review: Springtime Auburn gets a taste of Russian winter, courtesy of ASO 2010-04-11T16:36:00Z This combination of the faux-naif and the melodramatic is then further complicated by the diction of the gods. Review | Neil Gaiman’s suspenseful and surprising ‘Norse Mythology’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z His production is natural and healthy, his Italian diction impeccable. The music of ‘Catone in Utica’ conquers the night 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s hard to argue that Didion and Dunne’s films are palpably them any more than one can touch an actor onscreen as he coils his tongue around Didion’s diction. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z It's nicely done, with the folk tale diction playing off against the trailer-trash detail. Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru ? review 2011-07-27T10:30:00Z Still, the integrity and fervor in her singing won me over, despite very mushy diction. Music Review: ‘War Requiem’ by Britten, With an Angelic Touch 2014-05-02T21:20:34Z “Green’s Dictionary of Slang” was an online resource for period-appropriate diction and dialogue. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Open any novel of the past 50 years, and you will find the narrator reporting thoughts that, for reasons of diction and tense, can only be those of a character. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z "There’s a good deal of slippage here, from grammar through usage, syntax and diction all the way to regional accent," Ferriss writes at the Chronicle of Education's Lingua Franca blog. For grammar geeks: 'Grammar Revolution' the documentary 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Everyone uses a similar diction, whether they are native English speakers or not native English speakers. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z But Isaac comes to the rescue with impeccable diction married to raw emotion. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The score is filled with stirring choruses, which were dispatched with crisp diction and full-bodied sound by the impressive Bolshoi choristers. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z "They were Kentucky guys with beautiful, perfect-pitch harmonies and great diction. All those vowels and consonants, those s's and t's, every one of them killed me," he said. Phil Everly of rock's Everly Brothers dies at 74: L.A. Times 2014-01-04T15:37:58Z Her phrasing was subtle and her diction excellent in English and German, if less so in French. Music Review: Meeting, Marriage and Then Trouble 2011-05-22T21:03:46Z The group adopted period diction — with lady pronounced laddie, for example — and maintained it in spoken explanations between pieces. Music Review: Preparing a Dainty Dish to Set Before a King 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z In addition to providing a smooth tenor and crisp diction to the group’s renditions, Mr. Hauser was in charge of its public image, of which he was very conscious. Tim Hauser, the Founder of the Manhattan Transfer, Dies at 72 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The details of furnishings, décor, costumes, of gestures and postures and diction, are rendered in poised and wide-eyed images that drink in the material spirit of the age. Two Films About Nazis Show the Difference Between Engaging with History and Exploiting It 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The church’s acoustics still favored a big, diffuse sound rather than a clear, pointed one, but the choir’s energy and diction were suddenly more focused. Music Review: ‘My Soul Rejoices’ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 2012-10-22T04:23:03Z In his performances and many recordings, Mr. Cuénod was praised for his light, clean, almost ethereal tenor; refined musicianship; and faultless diction. Obituaries: Hugues Cu?nod Dies at 108; Versatile, Light-Voiced Tenor 2010-12-08T04:29:00Z The Argentine Spanish, at least for this non-native Spanish speaker, was much more difficult to follow than the Mexican – mainly because several of the actors struggled with their diction, often gabbling the words. Henry IV (Parts I and II) ? review 2012-05-17T11:02:25Z Two Sondheim songs from “Passion” — “I Wish I Could Forget You” and “Loving You” — were blurred together and their martial diction relaxed. 2010-01-08T03:47:00Z Instead, Conan Doyle emphasizes leisurely word-painting and antiquated period diction. Review | Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z His crisp British diction and classical technique elevate his Lear to kingly status, making his comedown by ungrateful offspring a steep tumble indeed. Outdoor Shakespeare done well 2013-07-19T17:38:50Z Even so, the lyrics for Guthrie’s sometimes mystical love songs had the same rough-hewn diction as his broadsides. Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z Every page of “The Mirror of My Heart” shows why, whether through the limpid beauty of the poems themselves or in his command of a diction that ranges from the elegant to the slangy. Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z And the way she spoke: with the erudite diction fragrant of both old showbiz and old Harlem. Cicely Tyson Kept It Together So We Didn’t Fall Apart 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z When characters, especially Cordell, talk about their deeper feelings, they tend to shift into improbably poetic flights of diction. Review: In ‘The Hot Wing King,’ a New Recipe for a Family 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Her poem "How to Triumph Like a Girl" begins "I like the lady horses best" — a funny and engaging first line that draws the reader in with surprising diction and a conversational tone. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Before she said her name, I recognized the voice: lustrous, deliberate, precise, a diction well known to me from countless elders. In a Commanding Literary Voice, Maya Angelou Sang Out to the World 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Christophers has planned and prepared it all with his usual care and attention; it was all immaculately performed by the group's 18 members, their diction crystal-clear, their intonation faultless. The Sixteen – review 2013-04-08T16:23:27Z There was some roughness and smudgy coloratura passagework in her singing, moments when she sacrificed clear Italian diction in pursuit of intensity. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Speaking in a pseudo-British accent and affecting Shakespearean diction, he is the butt of merciless comic bashing. Movie Review: John Stalberg Jr.’s ‘High School,’ With Adrien Brody 2012-05-31T22:21:00Z It's good for music diction, syntax, musical grammar. Pinchas Zukerman plays viola spectacular with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2011-02-10T20:50:07Z Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh. The Aristocrats: inside the lives of the irredeemably posh 2012-11-16T13:00:00Z A poem titled “When at a Certain Party in NYC” has a bit of Philip Larkin’s demotic diction and subterranean id. 'Slant Six,' Erin Belieu’s Latest Poetry Collection 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z That typically self-deprecating remark had some truth to it, but Cuénod's masterful command of technique and diction made one forget and forgive the absence of any purely sensuous quality in his singing. Hugues Cu?nod obituary 2010-12-08T19:10:00Z Some critics praised Branagh for nailing Johnson’s propulsive gait and peculiar diction. Britain Wonders, Is It Too Soon to Dramatize the Pandemic? 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Comprising 80 or more boys and girls chosen by audition, the Met children’s chorus is a rigorous training academy, offering instruction in singing, stage deportment and operatic diction in a spate of languages. Elena Doria, Beloved and ‘Strict as Hell’ Director of Met Children’s Chorus, Dies at 90 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z William Wordsworth once described poetry’s ideal diction as that of a man speaking to other men. Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser The parents bought them a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica and insisted on proper diction. Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z At his best, he sang with crisp diction and a full-bodied if gravelly sound. Music Review: Deborah Voigt in Met?s ?Der Fliegende Holl?nder? 2010-04-25T22:14:00Z There is a clarity to the diction that is not usually found in speech. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The diction is plain, like that of good prose, the deft verse-carpentry utterly unobtrusive. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z This is precisely the sort of diction that Tagore chose for the English Gitanjali, which, with its thees and thous, has so tried our patience. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore 2011-07-08T21:55:11Z Then they sit down together and discuss it in minute detail, raising questions, making decisions about the style, the level of diction, the choice of words, phrases, and so on. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The most impressive by far was Kyle Stegall, the tenor who sang the demanding part of the Evangelist with lovely tone, ardent expression and good diction. Music Review: Juilliard415 Performs ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-04-07T20:57:41Z The orchestral performance was tentative and sometimes mushy, however, and the diction of the soprano, Emily Albrink, who sang expressively, was unclear. Music Review: A Tour of Two Continents: Jaunty Mexican Musings to Somber Cosmic Questions 2011-03-27T22:09:35Z You no longer sense you’re reading treacle written in high diction, and that the only smoke is like that from the nostrils of a cartoon bull. ‘Medusa’s Ankles,’ a Selection of A.S. Byatt’s Wildly Imagined Stories Across Three Decades 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The trial has brought to light the 58-page manual that she provided for the Epstein staff, which includes lists of banned words and expressions, preferred diction for different situations, and rules of comportment. Always Well Groomed 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Anachronism aside, hers is a lovely performance of the piece, with pinpoint coloratura, razor-sharp diction and an ingratiating voice in which brightness is tempered by an appealing creaminess of tone. CD reviews: Hitting high notes in the opera canon 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z She has a great voice: Harlem accent, perfect diction. The Latest Dreams of Barbara Hillary, the First African-American Woman to Travel to the North Pole 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Decider describes her accent as "deep, diction precise, and delivery borderline camp" in an effort to capture Thatcher's manually altered voice. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z “Brandon’s love of language has been evident since his first novel,” Smith Henderson writes in his review, “but in terms of sheer prose, ‘Ivory Shoals’ is a luxury of vocabulary, diction and old-timey usage. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Still, he brings gravity and elegance, as well as impeccable diction, to Sarastro. Opera Review: Jane Glover Conducts ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2013-12-17T22:44:44Z She cuts through the often syrupy music with the naturalness of her presence, the lucidity of her diction, the understatement of her singing and the focus of her gaze on her fellow performers. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z His diction crisp, his tone dark and burnished, with an exciting undercurrent of muscular force, he needs to add only greater expressive detail: both more bitterness and more tenderness. Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Boulez, Though With Composers He Snubbed 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Yet his diction tends to be simple, his preference plainsong. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z "I was very worried because I also had to focus on my diction and maintain a steady narrative pace to ensure that there was clarity and viewers could understand me," said Prakash. India gets its first transgender TV news anchor: newspaper 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z With his diction murky and phrasing dull, he sounded uncomfortable in five Duparc songs, and he was strongest in a smoothly winning closing set of six by Strauss. Music Review: Jonas Kaufmann in Recital at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-10-31T21:41:18Z Lenormand and Talbot, both French, added precise diction and sweet voices. Offenbach's `La Perichole' ends NYC Opera season 2013-04-24T16:49:08Z The dictionary notes that the earliest recorded use of the word with its current meaning was in an 1881 complaint about "the constant and facile clichés of diction." Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Bostridge negotiated their demands with an interpretive security — as well as thoughtful accenting and magnificently crisp diction — that made these showpieces sound easy. Music Review: One Tenor, Three Voices, in Arias From Handel?s Era 2011-05-10T21:10:48Z Two-thirds into “Drifts” the narrator realizes she is pregnant, and as she beholds her “exquisitely tender and changing body” her diction stoops slightly into the hackneyed. Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Some of the diction is biblical; some is dryly sardonic. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z The diction is sometimes slightly mannered, as if the painter were making a formal speech to the academicians of the salon and mocking their language as well as their prescriptions and proscriptions. Poem of the week: Pissarro's Orchards by Marianne Burton 2013-06-24T10:20:03Z Most frustrating for him, his tongue hangs heavy in his mouth, the result of a stroke in 1996, and the once-ringing diction is now slurred. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z She made the words matter, not just through clear German diction but through the meaning and intention of the phrase. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z My only reservation is that the mezzo-soprano Irene Snyder — awkwardly placed for the audience — seldom showed good diction in the Beethoven songs. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z It’s clear, full and plangent, with crisp diction and unassuming eloquence. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z “Dancer in the Dark” is sung in English, with Danish subtitles, but the singers’ diction leaves a lot to be desired. Review: Great Expectations for a New Opera, Dashed 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z Kerr, she said, worked tirelessly to mimic Ms. Nixon’s bearing as a singer, while Ms. Nixon sought to imitate the actress’s diction and presence. Marni Nixon, uncredited star of Hollywood musicals, dies at 86 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z His diction was so perfect in a way that just that alone impresses you. Yoko Ono revisits John Lennon's archives for "Truth" 2010-10-02T02:39:00Z English today is an enormous bloom of syntactical and diction influences that cannot be restricted to either North American or English usages. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Frank Sinatra envied her diction, and in New York City, she ran with an intellectual and artistic crowd. Billie Holiday's Story Was Even More Complicated Than You Think 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Her father, Asa Coleman Lee, was a prominent lawyer and the model for Atticus Finch, who shared his stilted diction and lofty sense of civic duty. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The Schola Cantorum sang the choruses with fine clarity and diction, though they were mostly held in reserve by Mr. Suzuki; you might have wished for a little greater impact from two dozen voices. Review: Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform Bach’s Lutheran Masses 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Too closely, perhaps, and the ensuing corruption and hypocrisy is rife in a new conservatism that has shed most of its old restraints — except, perhaps, in Will’s priggish diction and bow-tie. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The grunts and howls seem every bit as mannered as the florid diction of Olivier and Oberon, perhaps even more so. Movie Review: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario 2012-10-05T00:03:37Z She was also praised for her sensitive musicianship, powerful dramatic characterizations and impeccable diction. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z During whole stretches of the score, the chorus sings in sonorous, block chords, delivered with an ideal blend of full-bodied sound and crisp diction. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z Though the text of the Kanon is in Church Slavonic, the ease of the Estonians' diction made it sound gentle rather than alien. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir ? review 2011-02-13T21:46:00Z Reviewers over the years praised Mr. Castel’s rich dramatic characterizations, his sensitive musicianship and, not surprisingly, his impeccable diction. Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z While most young performers in the National Council Auditions concentrate simply on nailing their high notes, Mr. Cohen — his diction superb, his acting alert without overplaying — provided an eloquent reflection on a current international crisis. Review: An Operatic Tryout Yields a Young Star 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Beach had trained as an actor, and his impeccable diction lent the show a certain cantankerous gravitas. 2010-01-14T00:25:00Z Dense yet light, with biting diction and dramatic dynamic shadings, the Trinity choir was particularly revelatory in the great, dark numbers of the oratorio’s second part. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z Bostridge's immaculate diction, every word etched like crystal, certainly allowed the full weight of their meaning to come across. Bostridge/Drake – review 2013-01-18T13:11:51Z But it was as a whole — diction crisp, textures nuanced — that this choir made its greatest impact in this strange, lovely work. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Ditty is excellent as the increasingly frustrated Mr. Curry, and Jess Bulzacchelli, in the role of Great-Aunt Matilda, exudes disdain from every pore, though her diction can be hard to understand. Review: Sweet Bear, Sticky Situation in ‘Paddington Gets in a Jam’ 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z With little appetite for college course work, Mr. Pardo enrolled in night diction classes while working as a ticket-taker in theaters. Don Pardo, ‘Saturday Night Live’ announcer, dies at 96 Movie acting involves position in the frame as much as diction; distance from the camera as much as gestures; angles, light, costume, décor as much as expression. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In the studio “A diction coach was making me pronounce the words so specifically, because she said, ‘Imagine you don’t know how to talk yet, and this is how you learn to count.’ How Feist’s ‘1234’ Turned Into a ‘Sesame Street’ Blockbuster 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z As well as allusions – Hector comes from Ilion, New York – there are attempts at epic diction. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z When it came to imagining his series’s next pope, Sorrentino was similarly inspired by Malkovich, borrowing the actor’s slow, meditative diction and unnerving inscrutability as he shaped the character. ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Desmond’s devotion to the Bible yields no parables, no diction, no favorite stories, no specific references. Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge”: Religious Pomp Laced with Pornographic Violence 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Wilton sustains a ramrod posture and immaculate diction throughout, with only a tell-tale moisture of the eyes and occasional, carefully controlled catch in the throat to betray the sorrow that consumes her character. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z A star whose arch features and languid diction were recognisable across the generations, Rickman found a fresh legion of fans with his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films. Alan Rickman, giant of British screen and stage, dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Ben Brantley, the New York Times theater critic, recently described it as “deep and dank and baleful, an exotic cousin of Vincent Price’s from-the-crypt baritone,” but with a diction that “stretches syllables into fluttering shadows.” Edgar Oliver, Actor and Raconteur, Hews to His East Village Past 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z And Olivera ably scales “Getting Married Today,” that Olympian test of breath control, diction and memorization — a lyrics-overpacked embodiment of wedding day tremors. Review | Sondheim revue provides exhilarating warmth in cold, trying times 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z And while the singers’ diction was admirably clear when they were singing, their dialogue tended to be screamed and hard to understand — though Andrea Carroll was lovely as Julie Jordan. Zambello’s Glimmerglass festival: strong parts looking for a greater whole Do you prefer the pained idealist of Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons,” marching toward martyrdom with melancholy eyes and perfect diction? 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z But the honesty of her singing, the rightness of every phrase, the crisp diction and more make her Mimi deeply touching. Met?s Archive Yields Past Treasures 2011-03-25T14:26:04Z His singing is finer yet, with firmly sculptured phrasing — especially striking in the many quiet, high lines, but with memorable touches of chest color in lower notes — and effortless clear diction. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z Tenor Lawrence Brownlee brought gorgeous sound and sparkling diction to his program of Italian and American songs at the Barns at Wolf Trap on Friday. Here’s why Lawrence Brownlee is a rising opera star 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z That theatricality was heightened by her impeccable diction and her low, melodious speaking voice. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z And she’s another transfixing singer with a penchant for careful diction and spooky connotation, and deep interest in the subconscious. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z I laughed the first time I read those lines, delighted by their mixture of lyrical and bossy diction. He Can See the Future, but Can’t Escape It 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z But his softer singing sounded faint and distant, and the consonants, he said, “are nonexisting,” though in the room his diction was excellent. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Her French diction is impeccable, and her warm mezzo sound is endearing, especially in "D'une image helas!" when she sings of her emotional tie to Oreste. Domingo, having turned 70, returns to Met Opera 2011-02-13T20:35:16Z “When you see a non-European auditioning on the stage, first thing they criticize is your language, then your diction, then your voice. You have to work double.” Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Pauline spoke beautiful English with wonderful diction and a husky accent as thick and French as a bowl of garbure. | Pauline Trigere 2011-02-28T14:00:51Z In general, he speaks with the antique diction of mid-19th century Western fiction, but he also knows what would become of Billy’s acquaintances many decades later. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z His fastidious diction is unmistakable: he picks up words as if with sugar tongs – as if each syllable needed personal attention. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z With her flowing robes, deep voice and distinctive diction, Ms. Sadler made every phrase count. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z She sang several songs in various pop-rock modes; diction was another of her weak points. Dance Review: This Time the Trouble Isn?t Wicked Stepsisters 2010-09-05T22:20:00Z I interrogated Risen's diction out of habit, but also in an act of reclamation of my ancestor. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z The role calls for a heroic tenor, and this production has one in the young, athletic Roger Honeywell, who brought burnished sound and crisp diction to the sweeping vocal lines, full of leaps and dips. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z He talks like that: in formal cadences and with elevated diction that seems to contradict the biker-dude aesthetics. The Tipsy Diaries: Sweet on Tiki, Flower of Cocktails 2011-03-31T14:00:29Z Movies about public figures—ones whose appearance, diction, and gestures are deeply ingrained in the minds of most likely viewers—must confront the Scylla of impersonation and the Charybdis of unfaithfulness. The Authentic Joy of “Southside with You” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The baritone Stephen Powell brought a robust voice, crisp diction and sober directness to his singing of the Owen poems. Music Review: ‘War Requiem’ by Britten, With an Angelic Touch 2014-05-02T21:20:34Z Her low notes were strong throughout, her diction excellent and her passion - for the tortured Dutchman and her part - powered the evening. 'Dutchman' returns to Met after a decade's absence 2010-04-24T18:46:00Z His diction, focus and tone are those of a caustically gifted word man; his metrical dexterity is everywhere apparent. Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z How exactly Vidal and Buckley argue — via lofty diction, engorged vocabularies and patrician inflection — would seem to make them impossible for today’s TV, despite the lasting legacy of their debating tactics. The Buckley vs. Vidal debates: The original knock-down, drag-out TV 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z His diction was a model of clarity and naturalness. Music Review: Anthony Dean Griffey and Emalie Savoy at Morgan Library 2013-01-16T16:08:16Z “I particularly enjoy making sure it sounds like everybody’s singing the same thing, that the phrasing matches, the vowels match and the diction’s clear,” Kalbfleisch says. Jon Kalbfleisch tunes up ‘A Little Night Music’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z We stretch, breathe, run a few lines and spit out diction exercises. 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Their gestures are communicative, making the clear diction of the sung words even clearer; returning later in the story, the same gestures deepen and connect. Review: Mark Morris Shows the Gift of Intricate Simplicity 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The choir sang with a finely balanced sound and crisp diction. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z Her diction was excellent, though, and she crested imposingly with the orchestra. Danish National Symphony debuts at Segerstrom with Deborah Voigt 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Morrison also talked a lot of poetic mumbo-jumbo, some of it interesting, some of it absurd—shifting from high diction to low—and maybe these qualities fed into Billy, or at least into the story. David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He has been coaching his colleagues in Ukrainian diction and practicing a few lines in the anthem that he will sing for the first time as a solo: On a Stage 5,000 Miles Away, He Sings for His Family in Ukraine 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Gramophone magazine praised the performer's "power and longevity" but added it was "never at the expense of a sweet legato line, near-perfect diction and beauty of sound". Operatic tenor Bergonzi dies aged 90 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z While the diction is sometimes childlike, even in her maturer poems, their "direct line" to sharp, unmediated experience guarantees them against affectation, and the reader warms to their sensuousness and apparent candour. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z There is almost a classical rigor to the way his sentences seek to capture the cadences and diction of these writers. Books of The Times: ‘Southern Cross the Dog,’ a Novel by Bill Cheng 2013-05-21T21:36:57Z But the actor brought his own sinewy charisma, stop-start diction and hoofer muscle memory to the part. 'Peter Pan Live!' on NBC, With Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, Mostly Succeeds 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Cast members read favorite Edith Wharton and Henry James novels in preparation for filming, and they were given lessons on Gilded Age history, etiquette, diction and social customs. ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Whoever they may be, they are unwelcome guests, and the poem tells us in its starkly uncluttered diction that "Some"… "are simply tipped overboard/ as if they were so much trash." Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z My chief reservation is that the diction of the two sopranos, Sarah-Jane Brandon and Elizabeth Watts, is not lucid enough; even so, their phrasing registers keenly. Mark Morris’s Transcendent ‘Il Allegro,’ Captured on Film for PBS 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The series, subtitled “A Personal View by Lord Clark,” was developed by David Attenborough and presented by Kenneth Clark, an art historian and museum director with a great synthesizing intelligence, excellent diction and bad teeth. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z She sang Mahler and German lieder with impeccable diction. Maureen Forrester, Canadian Contralto, Dies at 79 2010-06-18T03:55:00Z In other words, the high-falutin' poetic diction of the 18th century was renounced; plain speech, with as many monosyllables as possible, took its place, and nothing was ever the same again. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and ST Coleridge, edited by Fiona Stafford – review 2013-07-16T11:35:07Z He has an elocutionist's sense of people's diction. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Declaring that the poet must become a “seer” through a “derangement of all the senses,” he reinvents poetry’s mission while advancing free verse, raw diction and phantasmagoric imagery. Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z All were also members of the superb chorus, which had obviously been finely drilled by Mr. Fox and well schooled in the pronunciation of Church Slavonic, presumably by a diction coach not identified. Clarion Choir Delves Into the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z If they match our strong and weak inflections on the syllables, they basically boost our sound, and our diction carries over. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Francis, whose formal bearing and stage diction often seemed to put her on a pedestal, becomes a happily flawed human under Borzage’s direction. DVDs: Tough Women and Flawed Men 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z The reaction was swift and severe: AFA members clamored to their phones and keyboards to reprimand the home improvement store’s corporate offices for such errant and offensive diction. Actually, the right invented the “War on Christmas”: The real history behind today’s phoniest persecution 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The greatest challenges fell to tenor Robert Murray, who sang Gerontius with beautiful timbre, expressive depth, and immaculate diction. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Productions of Coward plays were hobbled for years by performers consciously or self-consciously imitating the creator's clipped diction. Authors in search of a character: when playwrights stage themselves 2013-02-11T16:09:45Z Accompanied by the pianist Kevin Murphy, Mr. Webster made these works his own, singing with elegance and projecting Mr. Wainwright’s words with far clearer diction than Mr. Wainwright does. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z The choir was at its best in this work, singing with crisp diction, buoyant pulse and commitment. Review: New Amsterdam Singers Perform a Text-Inspired Concert 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z And his nasal voice and prim diction wonderfully underline his crasser bits. Embattled comedian Katt Williams comes to Seattle 2012-11-22T14:14:42Z The odd diction didn't seem bookish: it was rough, at times, and full of vernacular energy. Season's reading: I Sing of a Maiden 2010-12-21T16:11:01Z The young tenor Nicholas Phan sang with sweet, full sound; rhythmic punch; and impressively clear diction. Music Review: Elliott Carter Celebrates 103rd Birthday at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-10T00:36:32Z She justly took pride in the precision of her diction. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Critics have debated whether the diction of "Deadwood" is historically accurate, but since we have no audio evidence we’ll never know. Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But her range and diction – that characteristic mixture of playfulness, deprecation, questioning and close focus – are also strangely, and affectingly, girlish. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z By the time they met, she’d taken diction lessons to lose her Philadelphia accent and learned to ride horseback. Anorexia killed my grandma 2012-07-22T13:00:00Z Ricks picks up a bone much chewed over, by TS Eliot and FR Leavis who could never quite make their minds up about Milton and his wholly idiosyncratic diction. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z But his rendering of Trump’s wandering diction is the best I’ve seen outside a lip-sync. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z And his English diction was a model of clarity. Review: ‘Magic Flute’ Welcomes Children Back to the Met 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z But classical singers produce sound in a certain way, with a certain kind of vocal support and certain accepted wisdoms about sound and line and diction. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The cast to a full-throated man and woman give it their all and more, and it’s been a long time at a musical since I’ve encountered diction this good. A London Musical With Energy to Burn, and Two Without It 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Elena Xanthoudakis seems to ignore conventional English diction but made this music her own, with a gorgeous, clarion soprano and refreshingly loose, wistful expression. RSNO/McGegan review 2011-01-05T21:46:00Z Andsnes’s exceptional articulation — in music a bit like diction in speech, but essential to a range of effects, including color — serves him well in anything he plays. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z His taboo-breaking starts with grammar and diction and extends to an unsentimental depiction of behavioural and moral filth: he's as troubling to mainstream Arabic literary culture as Joyce once was to the west. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z Mariel Sol and Daniel Holodek each sang several tango classics admirably, he with greater vocal caress, but she with crystalline diction and wonderful gradations between loud and soft. Dance Review: ?Tango y Vida? at Chase Latino Cultural Festival 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Unless an emergency diction coach is brought in, I suggest you read “Arcadia” before seeing it this time. | 'Arcadia': The 180-Year Itch, Metaphysically Speaking 2011-03-18T02:01:09Z She had no formal training in music, but her pitch was flawless, her phrasing disciplined and her diction crisp in a natural, unforced way. Kitty Kallen, Big Band Singer of ‘Bésame Mucho,’ Dies at 94 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The diction was very poor, the gulling scenes rather disappointing for exactly the reasons Michael Billington outlines, and the whole thing could do with some serious cutting. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z Year after year, she failed the board’s oral exam: The vestiges of her Russian accent, examiners told her, made her diction unworthy of a proper schoolteacher’s. Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Though there was wonderful vitality in the performance, Sorrell tapped into the melancholic underside of Handel’s work, even during spirited choruses — sung with rich, robust sound and crisp diction by Apollo’s Singers — and ardent arias. Review: ‘Messiah’ Brings the New York Philharmonic to Church 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Reviewing that concert in The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini wrote that he brought a “sweet-toned lyric tenor voice and crisp German diction to his work.” Snapshot: The Tenor Nicholas Phan Talks of Britten and Social Media 2013-08-02T19:15:57Z Cain is a warmly communicative singer whose cultivated voice and precise German diction combined to produce a pleasurably convincing “Wedding Cantata.” Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. DiDonato’s performance will be pointed to as a model of singing in which all components of the art form — technique, sound, color, nuance, diction — come together in service to expression and eloquence. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z Poitier’s now-famous cadence and diction came in part through reading and studying the voices he heard on the radio. Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z But his lute playing was appealingly fresh and rough, and Ms. Rhyne sang with a clean, eloquent voice, subtle vibrato and a sure sense of diction. KIMIKO ISHIZAKA 2012-09-25T21:53:52Z If he lacked spontaneity, he sang with suave legato and crisp diction. Music Review: Gun-Totin? Br?nnhilde 2011-07-17T21:45:27Z On the new record she reveals an interesting diction and good eye for detail, a valuable commodity in any language. Jeff Williams UK Quintet, Mudhoney, Olöf Arnalds: this week's new live music 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z He sang with rich, deep sound and impeccable diction, and conveyed Wotan’s essential dignity. Review: In This ‘Ring’ Cycle, Gods Dwell in an Old Theater 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z And diction was often muddy in a church with quite resonant acoustics. D.C. trio Eya presents a buffet of early music for lunchtime concert series 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Nearly lost among the cutesy diction and contrived structure is the simple and powerful notion that, to teenagers, it always feels like the end of the world. A Survival Guide for the End of the World 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The second phase began in the early 1960s when, under the influence of Robert Lowell, his diction and syntax loosened and his poems became more political and personal, albeit threaded with classical history and legend. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z In the “Cymbeline” setting, Sting was, as always, a presence, but the long, high vocal lines strained his voice and dulled his diction, so important in Shakespeare. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio With Sting - Review 2011-09-15T22:01:22Z But in her attempt to drawn maximum richness from the vocal lines Ms. Fleming let her German diction turn slurry. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z Diaz isn't alone in displeasing the confederacy with her diction. Gambit gabble: what actors' accents lack 2012-11-26T16:46:43Z His diction is at once relaxed and crystal clear. Memorable Sinatra Moments 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The occasion was broadcast on the radio, and the recording makes her virtues clear: confident phrasing, incisive diction, a constant dramatic pressure. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, a specialist in French repertory, was a splendid soloist, her tone warm and luxuriant, her diction immaculate. Music Review: Philharmonic?s French Flavors With Tangy Seasoning 2010-06-04T22:36:00Z Sebald's seemingly passive prose was in fact – to borrow Marianne Moore's memorable phrase – "diction galvanised against inertia". WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z In Bostridge’s case, it proceeds from ideas sequentially applied to the music, down to and including his clipped, precise German diction, offered as if he were not so much speaking the language as dissecting it. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z As a whole, diction was largely mushy, but then, bel canto singing in English can’t compare with the sonorities of Italian. D.C. theater’s ‘La Sonnambula’ finds its footing after an unsteady awakening 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z His bass remains secure and authoritative, his diction crisp. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Lovely diction and understated emotion coursed through, and I would have been happy to hear an entire program of such music. From ‘Danny Boy’ to uilleann pipes: A showcase of Irish music 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z When Berta Doff met Ben Cohn, in 1936, she was twenty-one years old, tall and confident, with the diction of an elocution instructor, which in fact she was. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The choir sang with buoyant pulse, crisp diction and a polished sound far removed from the ecstatic and raw style typical of shape-note singing. Music Review: The Early American Songbook, Reclaimed 2010-12-07T21:27:00Z Her opening to “Some are Born” picks up the rhythm and diction of William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence,” before switching into a Dorothy Parker voice of blithe stoicism: Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Campbell portrays both the general Agamemnon and the vain warrior Achilles with brooding tough-guy diction that appears to be in homage to the theatrical locutions of one Christopher Walken. Review: A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Not every singer here had diction as admirably clear. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z One poem, for example, moves from the Internet to ancient diction, from cave drawings to night dreams. National Book Award finalists for poetry As I’ve written before, in an essay that is no longer available online, the practice of making inferences based on diction certainly isn’t limited to journalism. Let’s call everyone “they”: Gender-neutral language should be the norm, not the exception 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z The diction of “Rat Tat Tat Tat” stayed sharp up to Ms. Waldman’s final pouncing “Tat.” Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z They give me notes, tell me my diction is awful, because they’re English, obviously. Jayma Mays on "Wet Hot American Summer " and "Glee" 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z While good diction is usually a blessing, it is perhaps best not to flag the dialogue here by over-enunciation. Theater Review | 'The Miracle Worker': Taming a Child by Setting Her Free 2010-03-04T03:22:00Z In a taut drama such as “Doubt,” subtle elements — actor placement, a character’s diction — carry much weight. 1st Stage puts on taut drama ‘Doubt’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In all these works, the actors, designers and directors have conspired to support the portraiture with approximately accurate accents, diction, costumes and hairstyles. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Choral singing of the Alexandrov sort is bright, chiseled, with we’re-all-in-this-together harmonies, stable meters, textbook diction — a kind of a foursquare vocal version, if you will, of Glenn Miller. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z There’s a bit of each of these writers in Ms. Morgan’s diction, focus and tone. Review: In C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings,’ Racing Against the Tide 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Though her diction was often unclear, Stravinsky is partly at fault for the sometimes awkward way he set the clever but archly poetic English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z His remarkable diction enabled him to shine in patter roles of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and he featured prominently in that repertoire throughout his career. Derek Hammond-Stroud obituary 2012-05-27T16:09:09Z The precision which has noted proper nouns and bus numbers now records the pre-decimal prices of the toys – and, again, numbers share the potency of the poem's quietly-measured diction. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z His stamina, projection and dependable diction carried him through the demanding part, but he had too little tonal variety as he went from scene to nightmarish scene. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z His face a mask of warm condescension, his diction as plummy as damson preserves, Mr. Busch does evoke the holier-than-thou graciousness into which Russell evolved. | 'The Divine Sister': No Doubt, Not a Typical Singing Nun 2010-09-23T02:03:00Z Listening to Mandell's refined diction is like reading a handwritten letter by someone with the most marvelous penmanship. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Dressed like McGruff the Crime Dog and channeling his same traumatizing diction, Stack was an essential component of the show's eerie tone. Think the new "Unsolved Mysteries" is scary? The original will freak you out 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z She brought a vivid sense of drama to the program, singing with clear diction and imbuing the texts with meaning. Music Review: Alice Coote Offers Plenty of Flair at Zankel Hall 2010-04-06T22:38:00Z In both parts, her voice has been bright and lean, her diction crisp and energetic. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Speaking alternately in English, German and Italian to the international cast, he urged them to greater clarity of expression, diction and meaning, often discussing the potential intention of a phrase. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Just as important are musicality, phrasing, diction, understanding, energy, intensity, charisma and character. Cardiff Singer of the World: is a beautiful voice enough? 2013-06-19T20:00:02Z Their tones become as clear and specific as voices. The variable becomes what the musician can produce from them. Better hands produce more interesting remarks, that are spoken with better diction. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z She said the play's diction was a serious issue. Much Ado leaves critics unimpressed 2013-09-20T10:51:33Z The texture on the tongue is lush, messing with diction; you might suddenly find yourself slurring your words. Sharing the Food of an Ivorian Childhood at Paradis des Gouts 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The appeal is that the tweets sound like her — that smoky timbre, the showbiz diction. Best Performances of 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z His “Lear” is a forthright affair, unencumbered by high-concept interpolations and exceptionally clear in both its exposition and diction. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z To his mentor Robert Frost, who shared his vision of a poetic diction hewn from everyday speech, he was someone driven less by a death wish than a desire to test his own worth. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky – review 2012-11-16T11:57:23Z Mr. Rilling favored brisk tempos on Tuesday and the choir — distinguished by its precise diction, crisp articulation and control — sounded cleanly fluid even in the fastest passages. | New York Philharmonic: A Period-Style Taste of a Holiday-Season Staple 2009-12-17T06:08:00Z Her practice of such belief is meditative, and becomes reflected in her diction: She speaks of endurance, overcoming, soul-sustenance for the long term. Mrs. King and Coretta: A Posthumous Memoir Explores Public and Private Selves 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Grad’s songs never challenged Mercante’s upper register and, although his diction was dark and seemed to come from way back in his throat, he handled everything with apparent ease. Composer Aaron Grad shares his ‘Old-Fashioned Love Songs’ at the Mansion at Strathmore Her Mahler lacked only some crispness in German diction. Music Review: Luisi Crosses Border To American Territory 2012-01-16T22:54:23Z These oddballs are also foul-mouthed but far less eloquent, though Ace sometimes lapses into “Guys and Dolls” diction. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z Some of his best fight sentences sound as if Joe Rogan had fallen into a trance and assumed the diction and rhythms of Toni Morrison. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Some of the diction is biblical; some is drily sardonic. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z But more important than his beautiful voice and perfect diction, Falk is able to characterize every word so vividly that, if he were singing in Vedic Sanskrit, you’d get the message. Review | Baritone Holger Falk makes outstanding Washington debut 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The Seattle Symphony Chorale, so good in "Messiah" two weeks ago, was less convincing this time, its diction often vague. Beethoven Loses to Piazzolla at the Seattle Symphony 2012-12-29T18:39:04Z He was widely praised for the size, richness, agility and silvery beauty of his voice, as well as for his superb musicianship, engaging stage presence and impeccable diction in a Babel of languages. Brian Asawa, Celebrated Countertenor and Pathbreaker at the Met, Dies at 49 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z “To my mind,” the narrator says in the weirdly archaic diction that marks this novel, “he who turns his back on town is as prone as anyone to become evil’s eager and ignorant sponge.” Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z His gonzo stories, with their surrealist plots and jacked-up diction, revel in excess, bizarreness of every sort and parenthetical winks to the reader. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Desus has an easy elegance to the architecture of his anecdotes and synopses; Mero combines a gift for exact diction with a delightful range of reference. The Verbal Wit and Bronx-Born Street Wisdom of “Desus & Mero” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Cordeiro’s voice was strong and emphatic in this text-heavy piece, especially as he lingered on the letter “S” in words, his diction was murky in spots. Review: Volmir Cordeiro, Assuming an Aspiring Celebrity’s Identity 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z She was known for her sincerity, fragile beauty and beautiful diction, and for bringing dimension to sympathetic characters. Olivia de Havilland, "Gone With the Wind" star, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Its dark apocalyptic ambience, its unearthly syntax and diction—plus its central theme, of the dilemma for an artist who must kill his subjects in order to portray them—gave Zal’s journey an aesthetic texture. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z His voice is more ethereal than robust, his phrasing and diction so oratorically correct that his approach occasionally verges on the stuffy. Music Review: Howard McGillin Sings at the Oak Room - Review 2011-09-16T22:54:23Z His charisma and robust baritone were marred only by his mushy Italian diction. The Lesser-Known ‘Falstaff,’ in 1980s Clothing 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z But within those restrictions, there is a universe of choices as to diction, emphasis, mood and volume to be explored in Mr. Ashley’s style, which is controlled yet capacious. Review: An American Gothic Opera Speaks Softly and Hypnotically 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Santa Rosa, with unlovely tone but immaculate diction, sings calmly, in Spanish, of love, sadness and night at several points in the show. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z Ford’s epilogue, delivered in elegant diction by Ms. Fouéré, cites various possible reactions to the play, ranging from “This was flat” to “ ’Twas pretty.” Theater Review: In ?The Broken Heart,? Tainted Love, Onstage at the Duke 2012-02-14T23:28:52Z Photograph: ENO To all these roles he brought an animated delineation enhanced by his trademark diction. Derek Hammond-Stroud obituary 2012-05-27T16:09:09Z Now the diction needs clear statements, full stops: ‘‘She began to cry. I held her in my arms. The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Sloppy diction and grammatical errors in conversation register as minor assaults on her ear, as if her headphones had suddenly erupted into high-pitched feedback. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Criticism centered on his language: diction described as flat and repetitive; imagery deemed unrelentingly repellent; an authorial tone rejected as the unpoetic rantings of an ideologue. New poetry from Jane Mead and Daniel Borzutzky examine death — in both human and national forms 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Her diction is more like what you hear at the next table in the local coffee bar than at the movies. Film: Greta Gerwig?s Breakthrough Performance in ?Greenberg? 2010-03-26T19:34:00Z For the most part, this involves simplifying things—first the diction and syntax, but finally the whole picture of life. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z His voice becomes an amplified, guttural caw that somehow also embraces the elegant, emphatic diction of a classic ham actor. Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Harrison’s masterful diction could bring you completely into the moment as he brought to life the jarring physicality of a bitter cold river startling the skin and piquing a sense of the divine. Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Harrison and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z His diction shifts erratically from 1970s TV shows to 1930s rom-coms — not so much an actual boy as a boy reconstructed from an older author’s nostalgia. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The singers’ English diction varied throughout the evening, but was mostly comprehensible. | 'Hansel and Gretel': At the Met, an Opera That Serves Children 2009-12-17T06:03:00Z Voice and diction affect it as much as acting. A Word With: Isaac Mizrahi, Dramaturge of the Runway 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Yet the longer his enigmatic pauses extend and increasingly erratic his diction becomes, the less menacing the character actually appears. Faith and Cold Reading ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:31Z The entire ensemble seems to be having an excellent time, but diction melted in the choruses. Music Review: ?Pirates of Penzance? at Symphony Space - Review 2011-12-30T21:47:29Z Felver can be inventive with tone, diction and perspective — and heartbreakingly solemn when he wants to be. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z At 82, she is just as elegant as you would imagine, with silver hair, ice-blue eyes and crisp diction. Queen! Bow Down to Tattoo-Flashing Octogenarian Dame Dench 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Both men sang with a heft and clear English diction that rendered the titles superfluous. Manhattan School of Music Symphony - Review?The Penal Colony? by American Opera Projects - Review 2011-10-03T22:40:28Z Slang as membership; diction, design, and disaffection as a kind of community. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But also the different levels of consciousness or diction that are on the surface. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: James Franco on Adapting Novels and Multitasking 2013-05-21T19:42:37Z But his muscular singing crackled with intensity, incisive diction and gravelly power. Opera Review: A ?Walk?re? Still Obsessed With Its Big, Expensive Toy 2011-04-23T18:40:58Z The poem's slow tempo, its relaxed but precise diction, and the detached yet not unsympathetic manner, grounded in the use of the third-person perspective, create a mood of possibility, not necessarily negative. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z His work mixed conventional English diction and usage with Southern dialect, swapping “the” for “de” and employing frequent contractions and unusual spellings to mimic the contours of spoken language. Patricia McKissack, children’s author who brought black history to life, dies at 72 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z There was a richness, though, of concept and of the chorus’s tone, with vivid diction — something, Bell said, that is particularly important to him. Review | Christopher Bell strikes soundly in his first D.C. outing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The characters’ distinctive dictions inflect not just their speech but their journal entries, book excerpts and letters that punctuate the plot. Review | Adventure seekers — and a few ghosts — make a dangerous trip up a mountain in ‘Mysterium’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z That wasn’t always the case: On her 2014 self-titled debut album, she used often archaic words and knotty diction, as if she were straining to sound serious and poetic. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Kalish played with subtle grace, and Ms. Upshaw was in superb voice, strong and flexible, her diction pungent and her interpretations passionate. Music Review: Amphion String Quartet Performs at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-01T20:53:09Z A former singer who met Noseda at the Milan Conservatory, the conductor’s wife travels with him, sometimes coaches the singers he works with on their diction, and cooks, by all accounts, marvelously. Perspective | After a conductor’s injury, an opera in Scotland became a test run for the NSO’s future 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z In both the elaborated choruses and the more straightforward four-part chorales, or hymns, German diction was excellent and, most important, deeply expressive of the libretto’s often-fraught text. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z His third collection, “Felon,” pushes Betts’s story forward, in verse that is “nimble in its diction, tone and focus,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Goren is a gifted judge of singers, and his young cast was excellent, especially the tenor Daniel Curran as Orphée, his voice precise and penetrating, with careful diction and an affecting sense of seriousness. Opera Review: ‘La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’ at St. Paul’s Chapel 2014-01-02T22:36:48Z And in this week’s Book Review Podcast, Arthur Phillips talks about Shakespeare, his novel and what it takes to write a full-length forgery in blank verse and Elizabethan diction. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: 'The Tragedy of Arthur' 2011-04-29T18:29:43Z “We go a lot through diction and enunciation,” Mr. Lamar said. A Goth Male Soprano Who Plumbs the Darkness 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z As well as being graphic about its sexual violence — and violence in general — the novel is long, dense, ornate in diction and full of sophisticated literary allusions. ‘My Absolute Darling’: A brutal, tremendous novel about a tough teen girl 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Here’s the spirit of outlaw country in 2022: a fearless woman gathering all her strength and belting out her truths with a poet’s diction and a bird of prey’s voice. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Ms. De Vita, in the smaller male role of Tancredi, proved yet more remarkable, with incisive diction: Her vocalism burns like a dark flame. Review: Lafayette’s Double Bill of Baroque Opera and Dance Drama 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z In addition to his usual eloquent, communicative delivery, Mr. Scholl showed a typical care for diction in a nonnative language, delicate shadings of tone color and dynamics, lively humor and so much more. Review: Despite Battling a Cold, Andreas Scholl Delivers a Dynamic Performance 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The diction is taut and spare: "flip-flop over/ tarmac" economises, possibly, by compressing foot-wear into verb-of-motion; "exchange the weather" wastes no time on chit-chat. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Kaminsky writes well for the voice, and the diction was exemplary, so you didn’t miss a word. ‘As One’: New opera serves as effective monodrama, subversive duet 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet his booming baritone and perfect diction ease through the BFG’s mangled English. ‘BFG’ is a fun puppet adventure for parents and kids at Imagination Stage At Saturday night’s performance she seemed more confident in the role and sang with winning vitality and crisp diction. Music Review: Diva?s Struggles and Songs, Shared With Candor 2011-07-31T21:55:47Z The diction here feels credibly consistent; “velocity,” “momentum,” and “vibration” all belong to a similar mathy register. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Steeped in images of sea and border crossings, travel papers and suitcases, the poet’s extraordinary diction coupled with direct address generates a sense of empathy for the dispossessed. In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Back in the day Ms. LuPone was often mocked for her mushy diction, so an enterprising fan has provided a literal translation of what he hears her singing. Theater Talkback: Charles Isherwood on His Favorite Tony Performances 2012-06-07T20:15:02Z Lately, all these gifts — the big brainpan, the quick tongue, the upper-class diction — have allowed him to make a reputation playing characters who are very bright but not quite normal. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z He’s down to earth, but theatrically so: his diction just-folks, his delivery dramatic. dance: American Ballet Theater’s Director, Kevin McKenzie 2012-06-15T14:41:44Z But most were delivered by the young baritone Andrew Garland with his robust voice, lively dramatic skills and crisp diction. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z The orchestra and the singers sometimes struggled to stay together, and diction, so crucial in these works, was mushy, particularly in the choruses. Music Review: Just Say Yes to Marriage of Music and Words 2011-03-21T22:36:49Z The mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips, if a little mushy in her diction, sang with dusky tone and earnestness. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z He does so impressively, aided by the crisp diction of the singers, often by following the natural rhythms of speech. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z His lyrics mix slang, high and oblique diction, and something like Language poetry, without seeming forced, at least until you read them. Music Review: Lyricism With a Dash of Soft Rock 2011-08-10T22:15:29Z The artist's character and something of his technique emerge in the physicality of his diction. Poem of the week: Rublev by Rowan Williams 2011-07-18T11:01:24Z Singers frequently sacrifice diction for what they imagine is "beauty", but intensity of diction is precisely what punctuates and provides a counterpoint to beauty, bringing intensity and meaning into play. Cardiff Singer of the World: is a beautiful voice enough? 2013-06-19T20:00:02Z “Sorry, I’ve got it now,” he says, resuming the formal diction – few contractions, quick and clear consonant sounds — that he uses for his rituals. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z He sang with a bright, pungent tone and notably crisp diction, though his sound occasionally turned strident on high notes. Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera 2012-05-06T16:31:04Z The diction in all three languages was woefully mushy, with the Scots accents perhaps the most egregious. Review | War is hell, and other original insights: ‘Silent Night’ at the opera 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, there was a lot of the arch diction and twee preciosity, long the stereotype in Britten performance. Music Review: Britten in Juilliard’s Spotlight at Alice Tully Hall 2013-12-04T22:33:18Z Tony Bennett is a solid rock on “Body and Soul,” masking Winehouse’s less precise diction and phrasing; she sounds like she’s channeling the sound of the greats, but not their ability to inhabit a lyric. Album review: Amy Winehouse, 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures' 2011-12-05T18:40:00Z From a stylistic point of view, it’s fascinating that this conflict extends to competing diction. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Speaking about his work, Mr. Levine has been direct about his unpretentious diction. Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z We don’t say that Bloom’s pretty face and excellent diction was responsible for selling all those tickets, but you’d think this bankable young actor would be continue his Hollywood ascendancy. Orlando Bloom in The Good Doctor: Malpractice Makes Perfect 2012-08-31T14:30:39Z At the middle of his range, he shaped phrases with clarity and crisp diction, and brought a booming, if leathery, tone to sustained notes. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The diction is not particularly colloquial, but its speed of movement gives that impression, and the rich metaphors are more often hinted than developed. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z A 1945 BBC talent report filed when the young singer was just nine years old enthused over "this wonderful child discovery" whose "breath control, diction, and range is quite extraordinary for so young a child." "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Their language is spare, seemingly etched, and spoken with a formal, even archaic diction that calls attention to the spelling of words that contain usually silent consonants or unvoiced vowels. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z It is the long school vacation in Nigeria and Elizabeth Stephens' regular students - the children of Abuja's rich and famous, who she teaches diction and phonetics at expensive private schools - are on holiday. The Nigerians learning to speak with British accents 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z You have a shallow, CliffsNotes understanding of the issues, but because you speak with speed and confidence, polished diction and a toothy grin, the incoherence is disguised by the delivery. DeSantis' star sets while Ramaswamy's rises | Charles M. Blow 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z With a more slurred diction and less emphasis on enunciating each syllable, Taiwan Mandarin sounds “quite sweet and soft,” said Cecilia Chen, a Mandarin instructor in Taiwan who produced a video showing the differences. Mandarin classes are a new battleground between China and Taiwan 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z His voice is weaker, his diction is not as clear as it once was. Biden is 80 — so what? | Robin Abcarian 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z “He was highly attentive to detail. He spoke with precise diction. He had an immaculate manner of dress.” Roy McGrath is thought to have shot himself during traffic stop, document says 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z If she’s as talented as you say, she’s probably a quick study at picking up on the mannerisms and diction that seem to click with your clients. Advice | Work Advice: Does this worker need coaching, or am I just biased? 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z I still consult previous translations, but I bring my own diction, my own syntax, my own sense of the original. Two of the country's best translators are married — and competing for the same big prize 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The list of slowest-speaking states is a testament to the common cultural conception that the Deep South has drawn-out diction. Study finds Minnesota, Oregon fastest-talking states, Louisiana and South Carolina slowest 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Her two musical numbers, each full of clever lines and dark humor, were written with “this spiritedly front-of-the-mouth diction, like she has this dexterity with words but uses it for evil.” Why Emma Thompson’s Trunchbull is genuinely unsettling in Netflix’s ‘Matilda’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Bearing down on certain words, he got a country feel across: ‘I stressed my diction so that it was harder and whiter,’ he said.” How two legendary Black musicians made their bones 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Reader: I have a young employee of high potential who uses speech patterns, diction and expressions as well as postures and body movements typical of young women from less affluent backgrounds. Advice | Work Advice: Does this worker need coaching, or am I just biased? 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite. Review | Four books remind us that a bookish life can be so fulfilling 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Sometimes judges are focused on delivery, from diction to eye contact and cadence. Senior at Bellevue’s Interlake High has a winning way with words 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z In the title story, for instance, the narrator combines the orotund diction of a robot with little comets of slang, “super nice,” “killing it,” in a way more manufactured than anything in “Tenth of December.” George Saunders' saintly, disappointing new stories: A tender-hearted takedown 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z He appeared to be referring to the scale of Republican spending on a longtime Democratic district, but in politics, diction matters. The education and disillusionment of a young reporter in D.C. "should worry every American" 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Her raw, quirky, brainy lyrics, idiosyncratic diction and powerfully expressive range mean that nobody in the universe sings quite like her. Review: Angst, anguish and Alanis. How 'Jagged Little Pill' plays at the Pantages 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He uses specific diction to describe her kindness and to help readers get to know her—a “tear” for the “suffering”; “bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner.” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “Her diction was formal, her sentence structure entirely grammatical,” Neil gushes. Review | Julian Barnes is back. But where’s the magic? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Bridges also lends his famously crisp diction to Karma’s father, Conrad, who reliably comes through with the dad jokes, in addition to the advice he regularly gives his daughter. Ludacris and ‘Karma’s World’ prove that hip-hop is for the kids 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Anyway, it’s not our place to question the chamber’s decision to have its lawyers torture legislative diction in a seven-page, single-spaced letter to Chopra. Column: Big business goes after another Biden appointee for doing his job, which is protecting consumers 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Write with purposeful shifts in voice, diction, tone, formality, and structure appropriate to personal narratives. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But then we bring grammar and syntax and diction and meaning making and connotation and denotation, we take the ocean of sign system and make it into sentences and words, meanings. Why Lidia Yuknavitch aims to 'unwrite an Americanness' with a new novel about America 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Burdick said wearing masks makes diction slightly less clear, but it’s still perfectly acceptable. Seattle-area choirs return to performing but things are not the same 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Pattern, structure, repetition, rhythm, meter, diction — these transmute familiar, often banal sentiments about love’s old sweet song or Nature’s wonders into heartbreaking art. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Like an intricate recipe, her paragraphs balance interior and external worlds, elegant diction and workmanlike narrative. Review | In ‘Fencing with the King,’ a search for family truths puts a woman at odds with her powerful uncle 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z For example, this student analyzes the diction of Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “We Real Cool.” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z I read books about Irish peasants in the 1840s and developed an ear for the way they speak, the diction, for Irish sayings, and then I made a list of words that they used. Reyna Grande wants her new novel to help us rethink the term 'invasion' 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Arnn, who has led the school for the last 22 years, is a Churchill scholar from Arkansas with a penchant for folksy and antiquated diction. How this tiny Christian college is driving the right’s nationwide war against public schools 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare-boned. Poem: Self-Portrait With Father 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The diction that the chief finds “uppity” is, in fact, an expression of Black audacity — daring to move in spaces where you’re unwanted, to live. Perspective | Sidney Poitier movies bored me as a kid. Only later did I get what made him great. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Paraphrase more specific ideas, also in your own words, and quote directly to feature the author’s diction. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He moved with astonishing grace and had mellifluous diction. Opinion | Sidney Poitier gave Black Americans a reason to fall in love with movies 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The song’s diction still bothered him, but he also recognized a dramatic problem that had become more conspicuous in a streamlined production performed without an intermission. How Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' finally solved the problem of 'I Feel Pretty' 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z His diction, once clear, sometimes sounds a little blurry. Our oldest president just turned 79. He might have something to learn from the second-oldest 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z “I had good diction, I knew the gestures, but they always made fun of me.” Perspective | A new film explores the life of Odessa Madre, the ‘queen’ of D.C.’s underworld 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The text does not adhere to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter: using descriptive diction, as discussed in Section 17.6, and employing sensory detail. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Conservative commentators quickly took the words and the president’s halting diction as confirmation of their longstanding belief that Mr. Biden is a puppet and not really in charge at the White House. Biden: ‘They gave me a list here, the first person I was instructed to call on’ was NBC reporter 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Why was his manner of diction so much more gripping than the performers in the play proper? Shakespeare made breezy: 'Midsummer' and 'Julius Caesar' at Theatricum Botanicum 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z “Diction! diction! And a little bit louder, sweetie.” How Shakespeare helps this theater teacher empower young artists from South L.A. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Her Igbo parents took her English language skills seriously and as a young girl she attended an etiquette class where diction was a key component of the lesson. Africa's lost languages: How English can fuel an identity crisis 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Apply effective shifts in voice, diction, tone, formality, design, medium, and structure. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Apple gives you just enough letters for some creative diction, but catches some of the obvious offenders. Your AirTag can’t say horseshit but it can say shit horse 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Ms Williams said judges usually looked at three distinct parts of a cry: "Sustained volume and clarity, diction and inflection, and content." Covid: UK town crier championships to be held in silence 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z For Veranda Camire, who took a diction class in the 1970s to lose her thick Kentucky accent, the course was “one of the best things I ever did.” Some people think they have to lose their accent to get ahead — is that fair? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z He was known for his accuracy, precise diction and upbeat delivery, especially when calling a close race. Marshall Cassidy, longtime horse racing caller, dies at 75 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Here, Garrison correctly cites textual evidence—an example of the protagonist’s diction— to support her reasoning. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “The diction is very flat and matter-of-fact,” she says. How to Write an Obituary 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z When there’s no real conflict at the level of plot to push readers forward, then that places additional pressure on style and diction at the sentence level. Emma Glass tells a nurse’s tale in slim, poignant new novel ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z He bought a tape recorder and devoted hours to practicing his diction, but the remnants of his accent eventually became his trademark. Sean Connery, who brought James Bond to life on film, dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The smooth diction and humble demeanor Pence brings to the role was honed in the 1990s when he was a conservative talk-radio host in Indiana, when he referred to himself as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf.” Trump’s defender: Pence’s campaign role grows at key moment 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Consider the author’s form and organization, tone, or stylistic choices, including diction and sensory or figurative language. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z She advised on diction, apparel and camera angles. Lillian Brown, Makeup Artist to Nine Presidents, Dies at 106 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Even the extravagant poets like Milton, Swinburne and Hopkins don’t stray all that far from ordinary language, and what makes them poetic is their vision more than their quirky diction. Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Contestants are auditioned in a pastel-pink studio, with Little Mix offering advice on diction and stage presence before deciding who goes through to the next round. Little Mix demanded aftercare on their talent show 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z A woman who smiled kindly and made you automatically check your posture, clear up your diction. Column: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death should not eclipse Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The text generally adheres to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter: using descriptive diction, as discussed in Section 17.6, and employing sensory detail. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Throughout the 1930s she appeared in a number of light, romantic films that allowed her to showcase her perfect diction but did little to advance her career, Olivia de Havilland, star of Hollywood's Golden Age 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The key elements in singing - diction, pronunciation and projection - are harmless in normalcy. A Kentucky choir director coping without voices in pandemic 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z "We have one beautiful law," Trump recently said in his characteristically bizarre syntax and diction, repeating the word "beautiful." "Law and order": A debased concept used to cover up right-wing crime and depravity 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z That brought her to the attention of Blackwell, who, with her mother’s blessing, became her legal guardian and took her to London to give her singing, diction and dancing lessons. Millie Small, Jamaican singer of pop and protest music, dies 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Identify and apply rhetorical concepts such as shifts in voice, diction, tone, formality, design, medium, and structure appropriate to a speech. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z With its farmyard diction – “squelch”, “slap”, “rump” – the poem now seemed earthy rather than erudite. Italian lessons: what we've learned from two months of home schooling 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Furthermore, using militaristic diction to describe doctors' sense of duty conflates and confuses the reality of our responsibilities. Military Metaphors Distort the Reality of COVID-19 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Then she opened her photo albums and, giving us a taste of her singular diction, explained “that they were filled with everything from my lineage to the digital age.” How Patti LuPone rescues her quarantined fans on Twitter 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z He was getting more excited now, speaking faster, with better English diction. Opinion | Why Did I Let a Convicted War Criminal Practice Energy Healing on Me? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It is in every affect, from his diction to his dress. Nationalism needn’t be negative – but it has to be honest | Gary Younge 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z I loved his voice, his diction, his lyrics.” Ronnie Spector: ‘I love #MeToo and Time’s Up – because men’s time is up’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Her diction, in its variance, mirrors what she’s disclosing about the song. The Legend of Tina Turner 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z His father enrolled him in diction and acting courses, and sent him to a top marionette training school in Czechoslovakia at age 16. The French Theaters Where the iPhone Is No Match for Guignol 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In person she cut an imposing figure, dressing dramatically and speaking with a diva’s perfect diction. Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, Is Dead at 74 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The diction shifts between simple directness and, I think, deliberately thumping ordinariness: “So through life’s long years she stumbles on.” Poem of the week: Story's End by Kathleen Raine 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But the handwriting and diction are easily read and understood. Whaling logs yield clues for modern-day climate studies 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Reading Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Twain, James, and Faulkner in such depth helped Milch create complex television characters whose voices were each marked by singular diction. David Milch’s Third Act 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Linda Lewis was a sometime lounge singer who emulated Karen: Today, if listeners hear Karen’s phrasing and diction in Lewis’ singing, it’s because she listened to her mother’s voice growing up. Yesterday once more: The feel-good sadness of a Carpenters fan convention 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z "Her breath control, her diction, her dynamic control are all flawless," acknowledged Voice Council magazine in 2016. Doris Day: Big band star 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The diction is so pyrotechnical that it may come as a surprise to learn that Jackson’s Lear is more personalized this time around, more human. Review: Glenda Jackson battles through a brazenly busy ‘King Lear’ on Broadway 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Kids who entered the contest focused on their delivery and diction, their posture and prose. Perspective | The kids talked about shootings, college costs, depression. Were the adults listening? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art diction was clear, and her voice rose effortlessly over the braying. At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Federal investigators also noted in the court filing the letters show a “distinct handwriting style” and the diction and threats contained in them are consistent. Sacramento man accused of mailing death threats to police, pastors and gay people 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z She studied with a voice coach and a diction coach, applying the same sort of discipline she brings to her daily life as a ballerina. ‘Marie, Dancing Still’ at 5th Avenue Theatre is a rarity: a ballet musical 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “The radio experience gave me a great command of the diction of songs, where you can understand my lyrics and the words as I was saying them,” he once told NPR. Mac Wiseman, bluegrass performer of wide-ranging talent, dies at 93 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He wasn’t just an outsider; he was a Californian, with no discernible accent, suspiciously good diction and a boyish charm that made female fans swoon. Broadcasting Daytona 500, Jeff Gordon recalls past glories and plots NASCAR’s future 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The sheer polish of his singing can lead to a certain sameness; at times, I wanted sharper diction and better-defined contrasts. The Dizzying Democratization of Baroque Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The tendency towards Romantic idealisation is perhaps signalled here in the opening apostrophe, and the moral vocabulary or implications in the diction: honesty, fellowship, the value of trust. Poem of the week: Written at an Inn at Henley by William Shenstone 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Caballé’s evident devotion to tone over text, reviewers complained, could result in diction so slipshod that it bordered on anarchy. Montserrat Caballé, Revered Spanish Prima Donna, Dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z No one had ever described food in quite her diction before: the “desirably crunchy carapace” of a roast duck, the “Blakean” yellow of a saffron-tinted fish pie. Kitchen revolution: how Nigella Lawson changed food writing 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z In “Washington Black,” Edugyan suggests the diction of another time without attempting to replicate it. “Washington Black” Reveals the Bonds of Both Cruelty and Compassion 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The first project to be released from Kanye West’s burst of 2018 activity, Pusha T delivers perfectly weighted drug raps over West’s thrillingly raw production, unafraid of beef and with devastatingly clear diction. Best albums of 2018 so far 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z His manner is warm and inviting while his diction is clear and crisp. Audiobook reviews: Authors take the mic 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Yet he had clean diction and a sure sense of rhythm that made his finest works effective, whether he was striving for humor or poignancy or, with his “Schoolhouse Rock” songs, instruction. Bob Dorough, who set numbers and grammar to music in ‘Schoolhouse Rock!,’ dies at 94 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z And, as in a good story, diction matters in data visualization; the style should match the subject matter, lest the meaning of a visualization become lost in a jarring misalignment of content and tone. Pushing the Boundaries of "Show, Don't Tell" 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z I get the feeling that Norman is deliberately poking fun at opera in general for the unintelligible diction that often goes with the form. Andrew Norman charts a new 'Trip to the Moon' for Disney Hall 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The syntax, diction, cadence of his “weirdly inflected sentences” had “no obvious provenance”, Burn wrote, until reading Percy’s The Moviegoer he discovered “a voice very like” Ford’s. The highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Whitfield had a reedlike, instantly recognizable voice and sang with precise diction, perfect pitch and almost no vibrato. Wesla Whitfield, intimate song stylist and interpreter of classic tunes, dies at 70 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Commercial recording allowed Mrs. VerPlanck to hone the clarity of her diction, a quality that became one of her calling cards in her performing career. Marlene VerPlanck, commercial ‘jingle queen’ and singer of Great American Songbook, dies at 84 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “The typeface, layout, header, seal, vocabulary and diction are all those of an official inner party document,” said Mr. Nathan who also worked on the Tiananmen papers. China covertly offering North Korea missiles, aid to halt nuclear program 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He had a buttery voice and excellent diction, with a light Malaysian or Indonesian accent. How Not to Talk to an Ape Smuggler 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z The pace of her rapping is often breathless but her diction is impeccable. Nicki Minaj, Always in Control 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s amazing that Cousins, the player seeking money that could create generational wealth for his family, can exhibit more grace and objectivity — not to mention better diction — than Bruce Allen, the team president. Perspective | The Redskins don’t deserve a quarterback as balanced and calm as Kirk Cousins 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Metal’s standard vocal style is to express anger and disaffection through a deliberately obscure roar, mangling diction as a way of setting yourself apart from conventional society. Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington soothed the angst of millions 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z This perhaps accounts for the smothered, recessed diction. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z “My ear for the diction and rhythms of poetry was trained by - in chronological order - Dr. Seuss, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, the guitar solos of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and T.S. Eliot,” he said. Denis Johnson, author of ‘Jesus’ Son,’ dead at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The English National Opera is to bring in diction coaches to ensure its productions are loud and clear. ENO recruits diction coaches for new opera season - BBC News 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Said Casey: “My goal is to become as well crafted in the art of acting as possible. Not just in acting — speech and movement and diction.” For Casey Giolito, lessons from the baseball diamond translate to the stage 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z In the formal diction he has long employed, and which lends even his most violent or outrageous statements a patina of harmless scholarship, Le Pen claimed that he had never said such a thing. How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z His scoring has improved, his understanding of defenses has grown, even his press conferences are smoother since he has slowed his diction. John Wall paces Wizards past Hawks 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Our diction and our dialect is different because we’re around what is Kansas basketball, a mecca of college athletics.” When team managers hold their own Final Four, who hands them water bottles? 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Trump explained his reasoning, in his trademark idiolect, his unique mangling of syntax and diction: Trump’s “American carnage”: The president plays military man around the world 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z But no one could fault Mr. Gedda’s musicianship, scholarship or diction. Nicolai Gedda, ‘electrifying’ Swedish-born operatic tenor, dies at 91 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The pretentious diction, dying metaphors and padded sentences would make George Orwell somersault in his grave. Letters from Africa: Nigeria's art of flowery language - BBC News 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Clearly, he intends to govern in the same way that he campaigned—for all the feelings of reproof that his diction and his opinions arouse in millions of people around the world. Watching President Trump with Horror Around the World 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The effortful diction suggests the exertions involved for this decorous man to contain “the havoc within me.” A Neglected South American Masterpiece 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Not in benediction, but as an exercise in diction. Inside ‘The Front Page’: Pulling off a huge Broadway production night after night 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “He had this incredibly resonant voice, and total precision of diction. You can hear him on recordings — his voice just pops out from everybody else.” George S. Irving, Tony Winner and Voice of Heat Miser, Dies at 94 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z To that elevated political diction, Mr. Stewart added a dash of venomous recrimination — assigning blame for the shootings of Dallas police officers to Hillary Clinton and Virginia Lt. Virginia’s would-be deporter in chief 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Greg McCormick Allen evolves from mirthless diction coach to ebullient tap partner over the course of a single number, the deservedly treasured “Moses Supposes,” featuring Scott and Corey alongside Allen. At Village Theatre, a joyful salute to ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z So what if Trump’s diction is less than perfect? Inside a Donald Trump rally: good people in a feedback loop of paranoia and hate 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z It was his voice -- it was like a stiletto -- and his diction. 'I always admired true artists, so I learned from them': The enigmatic Bob Dylan opens up 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Our critic mused on the genius of the comic actor, who died Monday at the age of 83: glimmering eyes, diction “as crisp as a potato chip” and a barely suppressed lunacy. U.S. Presidential Race, Apple, Gene Wilder: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z DC is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. The gentrification of Washington DC: how my city changed its colours 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z If you’re using the first person, or the third person privileging this character, your diction and syntax – your very writing style – will be shaped by this person. My best writing tip by William Boyd, Jeanette Winterson, Amit Chaudhuri and more 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Marion Adler plays Marguerite beautifully with a sour face, perfect diction and, in the play’s final seconds, a touching sense of empathy, as if she understands how hard it is for him to say goodbye. Review: A King’s Long Goodbye in Madison 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “The tonal quality of her singing, the bad diction, the wavering pitch, the attempt to sing high notes and just not really making it—it’s uncanny.” Meryl Streep: A League of Her Own 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “Give me diction over volume,” he reminded students gathered Wednesday in the station’s control room on campus, seconds before the drama went live. At mic, outside the box: EMCC revives old-time radio serial 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z DC is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. The gentrification of Washington DC: how my city changed its colours 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z In one tweet, Yiannopoulos mocked Jones' diction and in another disparaged her looks. "I made that joke at my own expense," he said. Milo Yiannopoulos says his 'Ghostbusters'-related Twitter ban is 'the most gigantic possible gift' 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Nicholas Phan sang with extraordinary warmth of tone and clarity of diction. 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