Sentence examples for Colloquial voice from inspiring English sources

Charlie's colloquial voice is appealing, but it often saps his story of urgency.

Bryant's colloquial voice and celebration of nature were considered poetic innovations.

Knowing that she shared "that fresh, brazen, colloquial voice," she thought she might model herself on JD Salinger, but worried that his first-person perspective could prove "limiting".

"I felt absolutely at home with the colloquial voice and the honest-to-god, honest-to-earth elemental content — the things of the poems," Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, said about his initial encounter with Snyder's poems.

By the time of this sonnet, however, the poet is already visibly tempted by the colloquial voice of Marsyas, which gets along without the "stiff rhythms, gorgeous rhymes" of Apollo.

Mr. Simon had to find a looser, more colloquial voice, and he did at times on Simon and Garfunkel's later albums and, decisively, on his 1972 album "Paul Simon," with irresistible but not quite explicable songs like "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".

Craggy and rumpled-looking in worn jeans and sneakers, his colloquial, Midwestern voice rising and falling, he tried to draw out students' reactions to the sculpture.

These men gave witty, colloquial, heartfelt voice to American life from the days around World War I through the 1950s; their most famous lines are embedded in the brains of three generations of their countrymen.

Even those early publications made apparent Kuzmin's striking originality: his nuanced understanding of other cultures and his distinct and colloquial authorial voice, as well as the philosophical and religious depth of his writing, masked by an ostensibly simple, unpretentious style in contrast to the typically knotty writing of his Symbolist contemporaries.

The deep south setting, child's-eye perspective and racial issues in Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird have led to comparisons with Huckleberry Finn, while more recently, echoes of Twain's novel can be found in the colloquial narrative voice of DBC Pierre's Man Booker winner, Vernon God Little.

But they reminded me of how much I had missed hearing Foote's quiet, colloquial and ruthlessly perceptive voice.