Word: dictional
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...other work in the canon shows more formally patterned structure and diction. Yet in this apprentice play Shakespeare wrote with unsurpassed gusto, letting the lines pour forth in torrents and saying things in several ways instead of choosing the best. The result was a ripsnorting melodrama that offered Elizabethas what horror movies provide us today. Richard III lacks the subtlety, artistry and development that we see in his nearest relatives, Macbeth and logo. And the whole play moves straightforwardly, putting few difficulties in our way except for a confusing genealogy...
...Hayward) immortalizes a family history of divorce, breakdown, suicide. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford depicts her mother, Actress Joan Crawford, as a promiscuous lush given to brutal child abuse. In I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, TV Producer Barbara Gordon publicizes the story of her ad diction to Valium. In Memoir of a Gambler, Play wright Jack Richardson details his flings with Las Vegas whores. Rhythm and Blues Singer Marvin Gaye has even turned the bitter themes of a painful 14-year marriage into a hit record album, Here, My Dear. Author-Director Bob Fosse...
...this could be melodramatic, without Nevelson's clear sense of formal diction. She knows exactly how far a space can be loaded with shapes before congestion takes over. And as a rule, her shapes are marvelously clear and decisive, a dream geometry of arcs, circles, balls and triangles, alternating with rougher and more battered fragments of wood. In this variety of texture and profile, which runs from Platonic solid to inchoate lump, her formal system seems to suggest the layers of definition from which memory itself is composed...
THIS IS THE ARTISTIC BEAUTY of Hazzard's style; an elegant and controlled prose that, carefully dispassionate and particular, nevertheless evokes an atmosphere of intense emotion. The writing is clean, sharp, and brilliantly metaphorical, with a tendency toward hesitation and qualification, a beautiful refinement of diction that results in poetic prose...
...dramatic dexterity. Horwitz seems content to outshout the rest of the actors, sounding more vaudevilian than dramatic. Claudy is not up to Beckett's extremely demanding monologue that satirizes Joyce, and sounds uncomfortable with the speed with which she must utter Lucky's stream of consciousness gibberish, though her diction makes the passage tolerable...