Word: dictional
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...sets were designed with a beauty and feeling that belied the expedition of their handling. Between curtain calls after the last act, the garden of Portia's house at Belmont was changed to the tapestried hall of the same villa. The diction and the business are the characteristic handiwork of Winthrop Ames. Cavil at such a performance as this would not simply lack reason; it would...
...second part of the examination consisted of five quotations from English authors of different periods. The student was to analyze the content, style, and diction of three of the passages, telling why they were characteristic of their authors and the times in which they were written. The quotations were taken from Langland, Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and Byron...
...famous knees, she may adorn the front page of the Mirror. She may return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings have not been shared in the corridors of Sever, if the word has not been...
...Browning's Diction," Professor Hood, Sever...
...soon overlooks the fact that "Everyman" is a woman, in the poignancy and finish of Miss Wycherly's acting. Unfortunately the acting of her support is not much more than adequate and at times the diction is not clear...