Word: dictional
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...performs more than creditably as Nell Gwynn, are perhaps the primary victims of the text's shortcomings. Often they seem in danger of choking on strings of quaint expletives. "Bloody" and "God's breath" got a good deal of special attention. The author's attention to the special diction of period and character is, in fact, generally insufficient...
Having survived Warsaw, I awaited the Beethoven with ambivalent anticipation. The Chorus was massive enough to rout Xerxes' Persian legions but sang with respectable diction and infectious enthusiasm, far outshining the supernatural unimaginativeness of Mr. Yannatos' conductorial efforts in the first three movements. The orchestral contribution was by turns trenchant and languid, almost always exhibiting a sepulchral gravity. The blame must be placed on Mr. Yannatos' amorphous conception of the work. His most persistent problem was metrical confusion, as he repeatedly failed to find the perfect tempo where metrical relaxation and momentum would conjoin...
...Thelwell argues that the more public form is the familiar dialect found in the works of Southern-dialect humorists. The other, "the real language," was the stuff of spirituals that has informed the sermons of preachers from the earliest days down to Martin Luther King; this undoubtedly was the diction used by Turner and his fellow insurrectionists. Thelwell charges that Styron's idiom, at once baroque and Latinate, Old Testament and Victorian, rendered Nat Turner in "a white language and a white consciousness...
Bedridden for the past two weeks, an overdose of "Lox & Chitlins" administered heavy-handedly by chiropractor Conn Nugent induced repeated vomiting. Doctors called in prescribed second-hand ridicule of institutions, elaborate diction, convoluted sentence structure, redundancy and random scoffing, but The Harvard Lampoon grew increasingly incoherent and seemed to lose touch with humanity. Specialists flew in from as far afield as Michigan and Rhode Island, and succeeded in alleviating the patient's suffering in its last hours. Observers sometimes found it difficult to follow osteopath David McClelland's complicated juxtaposition of photographs, clever cartoons, nonsense and witty social commentary...
...diction of the huge company assembled in Robert Chapman's production of Ceasar and Cleopatra is the finest I have ever heard in the vault of the Loeb mainstage auditorium. Every word and phrase spoken is clear, and the balance of voices is carefully, even scrupulously, maintained. A technical point of this sort may seem a strange point of departure for more general praise of this staging of Shaw's ideological spectacular, particularly since such matters as diction are always more notable for their lack than their presence. But the virtue of this Caesar and Cleopatra lies in the words...