Word: dictional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although their diction ranges from the heavily eloquent ("What is the Badge of Courage? /It's sweat and blood and tears," and "Our toll is written in history's scroll / In bright, bright lines of red.") to the quasilyrical ("Lay the green sod oe'r me"), Sadler's words are united by the common theme of self-congratulation. Sometimes they approach the sickness of Teen Angel as in Trooper's Lament where, "As he fell through the night, / His 'chute all in flames, / A smile on his lips, / He cried out his girl's name," but generally these songs...
Breaking Behavior. Called cyclazocine, the drug had been tested by Dr. William P. Martin in the federal Ad diction Research Center at Lexington, Ky. There, 15 addicts taking oral doses of cyclazocine twice a day found that six times their usual narcotic dose was required to give them any euphoric effect at all. Cyclazocine, which is itself nonaddictive, apparently has no serious side effects after tolerance is built up, and substantially reduces the physiological impact of morphine-based narcotics, probably by preventing the morphine from reaching receptor sites in the nervous system...
...part more than Bradley does. He came into the studio after 10, dressed in a sweater and sport shirt, carrying 'a stack of 45's from his own collection. He is 30, dark and stocky, with a low, Brooklyn-accented voice in marked contrast to the General American diction of most people in broadcasting...
...unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly and indirectly implicated in the Clutter affair...
...problem is that, either by choice or technical incompetence, Wheeler and his actors don't vary their dramatic diction from scene to scene. The result is heavy-handed and curiously flat. We are left with the impression that Brecht is haltingly trying to say that it's hard cheese when Big People, like SS officers, make things tough on Little People, like Jews and Communists. I think the play is worth more than that. It is always simple-minded to present Brecht as a Champion of Liberal Causes, or to make his works play like second-rate Odets. But this...