It means gadgets, bad clothes and self-important diction – a bit like Top Gear, but with a smaller budget.
In the "Cymbeline" setting, Sting was, as always, a presence, but the long, high vocal lines strained his voice and dulled his diction, so important in Shakespeare.
In Cheap Signaling -- a serious and important study of poetic diction in the avant-garde -- Daniel Tiffany posits a revolutionary poetics without positing, too, a paradigm shift away from postmodernism.
That is, as a writer you have your own unique way of explaining an idea, and therefore, your diction is important.
Someplace in Africa is important for historicity; but the diction of our actors creates a symphony of vocal instruments for classical language, for the power of the poetry of Sophocles".
That's by no means true, but it reveals something important about the simplicity of his diction and forms.
Jorge Garza, a tenor, offered ardent sound and impeccably projected diction, particularly in his important arias during the oratorio's second part.
The Italian writer Battista Guarini defined tragicomedy as having most of tragedy's elements e.g., a certain gravity of diction, the depiction of important public events, and the arousal of compassion but never carrying the action to tragedy's conclusion, and judiciously including such comic elements as low-born characters, laughter, and jests.
Their experiences left both Burches, though, with a strong understanding that their world would be multiracial, and that schooling, diction and personality would be important tools in getting ahead.
One of the first and most important attempts at creating a modern Arabic poetic diction was made in the late 1940s by the Iraqi poet and critic Nāzik al-Malāʾikah (died 2007), whose poems, in free but rhyming verse, gave substance to the shadow of her melancholia.
The most important thing to remember is to focus on your diction.
