Word: dictional
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...rich and round. As he throws himself into one of his specialties-Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes or Long Tall Sally-his throat seems full of desperate aspirates ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi luh-huh-huh-huv yew-hew") or hiccuping glottis strokes, and his diction is poor. But his movements suggest, in a word...
...motif is-a repeatable module on which an act of painting can be displayed. You take a motif and rough it up; then you take another motif and rough that up in much the same way: a potentially infinite series. It is not surprising that for all its bombinating diction (like a sentence wholly composed of capital letters and exclamation points), his work suffers from the monotony that plagued late abstract expressionism in the U.S. The shock value of painting things upside down wears off with use. It begins as an arbitrary gimmick, meant to convey Baselitz's sense...
...most disguised. His previous novel, Time of Desecration (1980), was tricky enough; masquerading as a manual of kinky sex, it was, in fact, a riveting case history of the psychopathology of terrorism. In 1934, Moravia has obscured his true intentions by adopting the histrionic manner and high-flown diction of German romanticism. The effect is bizarre and not always convincing...
...long before the beautifully ornate sets twirl into the first scene change. Director Jonathan Miller, famed for his long comedy career and the directorship of the BBC Shakespeare television series, has the rhythm of this elegant Sheridan masterpiece down pat: the well-considered, well-balanced details of posture and diction and timing give an impression of perfect naturalness to a mode which, in all likelihood, was never natural for anyone. Producing such a stylized work without making it stilted, bringing another age's ideal behavior to life, is always risky. It is also precisely the kind of risky business that...
...stark hallway two women speak in Japanese. "Alistair Cooke," one of them asserts. The other sprinkles her reply with English words: "...diction...delivery...