Word: dictional
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...their feet for fear the next quiver may start World War III. Singing easily, about half the time in English, he is more reserved than Presley ("I used to flop down on the floor, but I stopped that because I didn't think it was respectable"); but his diction is remarkably similar: somehow, in French, he has acquired a unique hillbilly accent...
...despite the unity of idea, the loose and experimental handling of incident and structure and diction creates a barrier for an audience. Since there are no leading roles, no performer can either make or ruin a production. The play is decidedly a "company" show; and thus the director must impose a consistent point of view...
...American Shakespeare Festival's current production is better served by Jessica Tandy's Lady Macbeth, though she is far from ideal in the role. She at least makes it evident that we are listening to one well practiced in the niceties of classical diction...
...ride. It is well known that reminiscence disarrays the wits, and that the old days were by no means as good as the present ones. But city boys and city men who read Ruark's book may find it hard not to forgive him his artfully mussed diction and his sentimentality. They may even forgive him for telling of the same tiger shoot three times in 300 pages...
...minute writing ability portion of the test hopes to "measure the student's command of grammar and diction as well as his ability to recognize verbose or unclear writing," the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., reports. The "test of general background," containing 90 questions, will test "the student's awareness of the intellectual and cultural context in which the law functions...