Word: dictional
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When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father. When the going is tough, he is only the eldest son-but even then Jimmy Roosevelt is an able speaker with a pleasant voice and good diction. Last week, on the grounds that he had inherited enough of his father's magic to hold down a regular news commentator assignment, two small California stations signed him for a five-a-week schedule. (Both stations, Los Angeles' KLAC and San Francisco's KYA, are owned by the New Dealing, New York Post-publishing Thackreys...
Specifically, Orwell would do away with such "dying metaphors" as toe the line, ride roughshod over, play into the hands of, stand shoulder to shoulder with, such "verbal false limbs" as make contact with, play a leading role in, serve the purpose of, and such "pretentious diction" as phenomenon, constitute, epochmaking, unforgettable, ancien régime, status quo. And he would clearly define or do without such "meaningless words" as realistic, sentimental, fascism, democracy, progressive, reactionary...
Concierges of Neuilly's swank apartment houses proselytize domestic servants. In workers' districts party propaganda does not shy from argot, but Sorlin takes care that his organizers mind their grammar and diction, lest bourgeois members be offended...
...female chorus would alone endanger such an attempt, especially one with accents and movements as weird as Idler's. The current performance collapses wholly in the sadly inadequate portrayals of most of the leading characters, especially that of Oedipus, which Henry P. Robbins exaggerates and destroys, despite good diction, with a stream of sculpturesque poses, haling deliveries, and indecorous tiltings of the head. Only William Whitman, a last-minute substitute in the role of Creon, approached the adequate. As Directress Mary Manning Howe said not quite inclusively enough in her program notes, "Purists and scholars will, no doubt, find much...
...foyer, where the ladies of the audience were drinking tea, nibbling tiny sandwiches and acclaiming her. Said Koussevitzky, who used to be a cellist: "Always I try to make the cello play like the human voice and now . . . her voice is like a cello. . . . Such musicality! Such diction! Never have I heard something like this. [Also], she is beautifully constructed...