Sentence examples for precise diction from inspiring English sources

He was best known for his extravagant characterizations, precise diction, and comic timing.

Ms. Whitfield had a reedlike, instantly recognizable voice and sang with precise diction, perfect pitch and almost no vibrato.

Conrad Veidt's Major Strasser, an elegant Nazi with precise diction, keeps hissing threats at Laszlo, but Strasser's power is limited.

Born in Sheffield, she still speaks in a slight Yorkshire accent, with the slow, precise diction of someone accustomed to communicating with children.

Kumar had the more precise diction and was better educated, but Rajaratnam was one of the world's new billionaires and therefore a luminary among businessmen from the subcontinent.

Donnie Winokur, who had by then founded the Georgia affiliate of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, explained with rapid and precise diction.

Fine text, weird stacatto delivery with too-precise diction that makes him sound a bit like a Berlitz tape.8 59: You know who else didn't have much experience?

He set the tone with a neighborly but precise 1940s-style diction, honed to amiable perfection in a second career as a voice-over artist.

(Ludwig's Fricka is the richest portrayal on modern recordings; on earlier disks, the standard is set by Margarete Klose, precise in diction and acute in expression).

He is a tall, reserved Scandinavian who speaks in calm tones and with precise British diction, tending to smooth his colleague's edges with scholarly qualifications.

Consequently, he will not be to everyone's taste in all the Italian selections here: in the duet "O soave fanciulla" from Puccini's "Bohème," his precise, careful diction comes off as finicky and out of place.