declamatory

Example Sentences

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“We were interested in this nice trophy for the 1930 State Declamatory Championship,” Jim Phillips said.

From Washington Times • May 22, 2017

Against Mr. Alessandrini’s intentionally minimal background, the action took on the quality of a stage play: Declamatory vividness was as important as beauty of tone.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2017

Declamatory and full of effects carefully calculated—a work of art, in fact—his appeal showed no error of discretion in its approach to the Eternal.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

The Declamatory Stile, another great Vice in Eloquence, is the Characteristick of these Essays; tho' I question not but it is thought to be the very Cream of the Discourse.

From An Essay on Criticism by Oldmixon, John

Declamatory rhetoric never deceived this group of intellectually alert students.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee