elocutionary

She'd rather have the audience appreciate her hard-won elocutionary skills.

He had no elocutionary training, his reading was singularly restricted, and all his resources were from within.

In 1927 he founded the musical and elocutionary ensemble Voiceband.

The elocutionary exercise brings out the approval-seeking child in even the most aloof multimillionaire.

Like Mercer's, her singing is really speech-song executed with an elocutionary flourish and stylized acting.

The characters suddenly seemed cartoonish, and the actors' delivery seemed more elocutionary than interpretive.

The presiding spirit of the director Douglas Hughes's interpretation seems to be less fiery than, well, elocutionary.

Delivering the dialogue in the rich elocutionary cadences of proper Victorian speech, the three actresses play it for all its poetic worth.

Paul Goring argues that "elocutionary movement" arose initially from a desire to make sermons more interesting and attainable.

Some of the language is swallowed, but the elocutionary speed contributes to the Keystone Kops-style staging.

Randolph Gates was summoned, and he ran into their arms with alacrity, stunning one courtroom after another with his elocutionary gymnastics.

Her keening vocal throb and elocutionary precision powerfully underline the songs' solemnity without going overboard.

In 1895 in Chicago, he succeeded as Hamlet; his performance was praised as natural and unaffected, without elocutionary tricks.

That I object to partial or, worse, distorted Hamlets doesn't at all mean I'm in favor of statically "elocutionary" ones.

Instead of ungovernable passion, the most he can conjure is a lofty excitability expressed with an elocutionary precision that seems inappropriately fastidious.

Elocutionary flagella are supported by microtubules in a characteristic arrangement, with nine fused pairs surrounding two central singlets.

He extended elocutionary arms from frayed stained shirtcuffs, pausing: --What was their civilisation?

Singing self-contained, nontheatrical pop songs, she brings the same dramatic impulses, bearing down on material that doesn't support her brand of high-strung, elocutionary drama.

Beginning with his elocutionary switch from "nigra" to "knee-grow," Allen promoted integration just enough to enforce business climate mandated by home office of Coca-Cola.

The "British elocutionary movement" is irrevocably linked to Thomas Sheridan, an Irish actor turned orator and author who was an avid proponent of educational reform.

"It 's dreadful long," began Tom; but his face brightened, for Polly's interest soothed his injured feelings, and he was glad to prove his elocutionary powers.

Ms. Connelli, who is appearing at the Firebird Cafe through Nov. 28, delivers lyrics with the elocutionary flourish of a devoted phonics student.

The tension between the sweetness and the hysteria is apparent in phrasing that has a gasping urgency, a mercurial vibrato and diction that can turn grandly elocutionary.

If Ms. Zellweger's shaky English accent carried her through two Bridget Jones movies, portraying an upper-middle-class Victorian woman presents a steeper elocutionary challenge.

This pantomime was the elocutionary expression of an unspoken soliloquy which had something of this shape: "I was afraid of it--was afraid of it.