The word enunciation has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 14 in “‘King Lear,’ Faster and Less Furious.” The review, written by Maya Phillips, includes a critique of Kenneth Branagh’s acting:
Branagh himself, usually armed with such a well-attuned ear, here seems to have lost his handle on the text’s lyricism and the naturalistic iambic gait of the speeches. Instead he recites his lines in a rushed singsong with some unnecessary frills: a few hammily rolled r’s, pretentiously clipped consonants and baffling acts of enunciation.
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