Word: dictional
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...Diction and identity and history and religion and culture are all intimately bound up," Heaney said. "I am poetically more sure-footed with [idiomatic] words as the paving of my text...
...appear in sixty years. Unlike the translators of the previous edition, Edwin and Willa Muir, who tried to clarify the text through interpretation, the new translator, Breon Mitchell, makes an effort to preserve the hidden meanings present in the original. To this end he painstakingly reviews Kafka's diction and syntax, searching for connotations not readily apparent in the German...
...awful. Altogether too much of the play's rich, multi-textured language was muffled or lost to echoes--shouting lines didn't help audibility. To the actors' great credit, though, this is one of the very few Shakespeare productions in recent memory in which nobody had trouble with their diction: most of these guys knew how to speak Shakespeare as if they understood it, and could make us understand...
...than Mount, had managed to do it without bathos. Benjamin West, the prodigy from Philadelphia, had brought it off--but by going to London and soaking himself in its prototypes. In America would-be artists had to rely on an erratic supply of prints for their clues to elevated diction, but there was hardly any local market for history painting. John Trumbull, president of the American Academy of Fine Arts, whose lifelong ambition was to commemorate the American Revolution in paint on an official scale, died a bitterly disappointed...
...recently listened to a marathon session of Sinatra's recordings. It was a revelation: hundreds of songs seemed to belong only to him. His diction was crystal clear, no slurring, no swallowing of words. His singing was pure, no pyrotechnics. The focus was on the words. But what really set Sinatra apart was his ability to inhabit a song. When Frank Sinatra sang, you felt he had lived what he was telling you. No other artist so disappears into the lyrics. DIANE DANIELLE Berkeley, Calif...