Word: dictional
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...that defeats its own end. Enormous polish employed unimportantly-rigid, neat little effigies frozen in their tight molds. There are some lovely and successful lyrics among the 28 poems that compose the traditionally slender and beautifully printed volume, but they are rare. Perfect control in the rest, excellence of diction, frequent excellence of image and epithet, but nothing more. All the promise in the world, but Body of This Death has not been judged as promise but as performance. So far Miss Bogan merely shows great aptitude and considerable technical skill...
...soloists, Mr. Lautner stood out for his clarity of diction, his care in phrasing, his pure intonation, and Miss Tingley for her warm, colorful voice, and its artistic...
...enemies on account of the manner of their expression. An example of this was furnished last week when Dr. Meiklejohn made an address to the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. His words, if typical, denote a new period in the history of education, as compared to the diction of the Eliots, the Dwights, the Wilsons...
...Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare...
...Wright's argument is cleverly sustained, though at times loose and mystical in diction. Like all large generalizations, it is too much simplified, and some pertinent questions might well be asked. What would Titian, Hals, Vermeer, Velasquez- colorists extraordinary-have said to the charge that color was only an incident to their art? Probably they would have replied in words not dissimilar to those of Ingres, when a visitor to his studio asked: " Does M. Ingres, the celebrated draughtsman, live here...