Word: dictional
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...speaking of the new theory of poetic diction, in which Wordsworth and Coleridge made common cause, Eliot said, "It is Wordsworth's social interests which explain his criticism of the old poetic diction. Wordsworth's poetry met with no worse reception than might have been expected." Eliot recalled the time when he and Ezra Pound were called "literary bolsheviks," and said that in truth they were affirming forgotten standards rather than setting up new ones...
...spite of these interruptions, and also in spite of several irritating instances of dragging in the action, this picture of one-of-those women being evangelized and then scandalized by a self-appointed soul-healer, who combines in himself the righteousness of a Father Confessor, the diction of a bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only...
...youngster propping her face against his champagne glasses, he wonders who she is. He learns that she is a Miss Healy (Constance Cummings) and that the saloon which she patronizes, out of nostalgia, was once her private residence. The elocutionist (Alison Skipworth) whom Anton hires to teach him polite diction gets drunk with a blonde beautician (Mae West), while Joe makes love to Miss Healy. Competing 'leggers try to buy his establishment and one of his old friends (Wynne Gibson) tries to re-open their relations with a revolver. What all this leads to any cinemaddict ought to know...
College President Butler next took up the Wet argument, his cracking voice making him far less eloquent on his feet than on paper. His impeccable diction and the fact that he had argued similarly at Republican gatherings for years seemed to win him the respect of the crowd. After Dr. Butler came the turn of Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Obedient to his President, he infuriated his Wet colleagues in the New York delegation by forcefully, with downward jabs of his fists, demanding acceptance of the Administration's plank...
...bitter, frustrated daughter, is superb; long after the curtain has fallen one wonders at the depth of hatred that twisted her (or is it something less conscious than hatred, a deep rooted honesty that forced her to provoke the final tragedy?). As Nance, ellen Crowe speaks with splendid diction; her voice is one of genuine beauty, but it slips at times into sing-song rather than melody. The other players are on a uniform level of excellence, never fail in to play their roles with sincerity and understanding, qualities rarely found in the usual "rest of the cast...