Word: dictional
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...fired and only came back, as he put it, "to make a fortune by Washington alone; I calculate upon making a plurality of portraits." He did not die rich, but he was said to be able to whip off a Washington on demand in two hours flat. Stuart's diction was as fluent as Peale's was meticulous and creaky...
...into his brown-bag lunch, careful to include both an Eskimo and a butterfly kiss in his little daughter's good-night ritual. Nor is he a man who has educated himself along the trail; instead, he proudly asserts his learning through the punctilious formalities of his manner and diction. Indeed, he is a man whose survival (and killer) instincts are in dire need of on-the-job training and support...
...most of the fault lies in the translation. Director Marya Cohn adapted an already existing translation herself, which means that the blame for the loss of Garcia Lorca's poetic diction and for the unusual interpretation of certain characters is hers. Poetry, even free verse such as Garcia Lorca's galloping, assonant verse. If the actors delivery of this awkward English version of Garcia Lorca's poetry falls flat at times, they may be excused...
Defense of the Realm has its moments--exciting scenes of newspaper presses and ceremonies in the linotype room, stuffy British parlors and subtle jabs at clumsy American diction--but the picture plays like a second-rate TV drama. Wrapped up in the perceived all-importance of his plot, director David Drury neglects such film elementals as character development and cinematography. Although the picture revolves around Mullen, we learn next to nothing about him as a person, save what can be gleaned from his decor (most notably graced by classical records and a synthesizer...
...nature -- remains mysterious. Meanwhile I believe I have put a little order in my chaos . . . I am not intelligent." Of course, Matisse painted his share of perfunctory images in Nice. But the overwhelming impression is of struggle and synthesis, of a mature artist who, having achieved a monumental diction before 1916, set out to reinvest it with immediate impressions before it congealed...