The dialogue — in particular Leo's half-literate voice-over narration — is atrocious.
A singularly literate comic voice in American cinema, he doesn't work often enough as it is: we can ill afford to donate his gifts to someone else's comedy of manners, right?
With an nonpartisan and unbiased approach, The Times pushed issues to the fore with a progressive, literate, pro-European voice.
Torch-song drama-queen Sarah Lov has the aura of Sylvia Plath (although, oddly, the lyric sheet is barely literate) and a voice to melt spaceships, particularly on I Broke Up, where she even gets away with describing streets as "lonely".
"I mean literally literate".
As a playwright his voice is literate, professional and almost wholly anonymous.
"It's just ordinary people making music that is really very special," Russell says, "not having to worry about being musically literate or having beautiful voices – just ordinary people making music, and remarkable music as well".
Not all children are in school and those that are, are not equally literate, which means some voices in the community are not being heard.
A man in white flannels and a double-breasted blazer was rowed ashore in a dinghy and announced in the voice of a literate aristocrat to the small crowd that had gathered to greet him, "I'm looking for John Cheever".
Anais Mitchell is known for her innocent, girlish voice and mature, literate songwriting, while Jefferson Hamer's claim to fame is as a singer-songwriter and a member of Irish folk duo The Murphy Beds.
