Sentence examples for exact diction from inspiring English sources

Mr. Simoneau (Deutsche Grammophon Originals 289 457 752-2) represents the epitome of the classic French tenor sound as we think of it today: a light high voice with beautifully exact diction and top notes delivered with a white head-sound, a tone at one remove from falsetto, unlike the ringing, heroic color of a Verdi singer's climax.

During the hearings, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote on his blog, for The Atlantic, that Sotomayor's exacting diction reminded him "of one of those teachers in middle school who worked hard to scrub away the hood accent".

The vocalist Virginia Warnken, whose punkish blond hair, body glitter and broad stripe of red eye makeup suggested Daryl Hannah in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," executed lines with exacting diction and riveting presence.

On Tennyson's poem Nocturne, Armstrong open up his full vocal power, and fluid passagio that is so suited to this material, exacting sterling diction and phrasing.

His scope is large, his diction wildly exact, his line inventive, his means varied, and he never condescends.

Her pitch is precise and her diction is clear.

The poem's diction is precise but pleasantly casual.

Sentence by sentence, the artistry is there, and it's probably true that King's prose is underrated -- his diction is frequently witty and exact, his phrases neatly turned and apt -- but there's something about the way he fills his pages that can make reading them feel like a forced march.

A reader should, however, not shy from the rare but exact word, and none of Alter's eccentricities of diction substantially undermine his attempt to deliver a strongly rhythmic and ruggedly direct equivalent of the Hebrew.

His diction was clipped and precise.

His diction is theatrical and precise.