Sentence examples for colloquial voice from inspiring English sources

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

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".

When "Carpentaria," Alexis Wright's epic novel about Aboriginal life, appeared last year, readers in Australia were slow to warm to its magisterial yet colloquial voice, which transformed the oral tradition of the country's indigenous people into a swirling narrative spiked with burlesque humor and featuring a huge cast of eccentric characters.

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.

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

That's all I want to know.' " Lawrence's voice was colloquial and poetic, like the voices that Cain had loved back East but adapted to a Western context, an atmosphere of perpetual sunshine and wide-open spaces.

At the end of this conversation with UNICEF Promita piped up as Meena's voice in colloquial Bangla, "Don't miss school my friends, education is important".