Inexplicably, they try to convey that impoverishment with outmoded black American diction and a Thelma Ritter-like solidity.
Isn't that you don't get the black diction, is this what's going on?
As the accidental titan of American destiny, Walter Huston dominates the film with a sly yet grand manner and a prophetic diction.
Exhibiting style, using passable diction, earning a good salary as a single woman, sleeping with a white man: to Madea, these are all pollutants to the authentic black woman.
With clear diction, a creamy tone and intense focus on language, Upshaw has established herself as one of America's great recitalists, often including songs by American and contemporary composers on her programs.
If you've done that much reading not including text messages, emails and status updates you will probably have absorbed a sufficient sense of punctuation, diction and style so as not to perpetrate a sentence such as the one above.
The elder actors conjure stifled furies with their pensive stillness and chisel-sharp diction, and Oliveira aided by the lambent evocation of gaslight by his cinematographer, Renato Berta presents them in frames of dramatic precision that evoke the enduring agonies of a vanished century.
Part of the way in which the epic legitimizes its ability to talk about so many levels of existence and so many kinds of experience is its style: an ancient authority inheres in that old-time diction, the plushly padded epithets and stately rhythms.
His elitist aesthetics and patrician diction supported a populist ethos that celebrated excellence in carpentry and art-making alike, and hoped to play down the role of money in ruling everything, a shaky position to maintain at any time and maybe impossible to duplicate by anyone brave enough to emulate his example.
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