declamation

Example Sentences

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As this druid high priestess, caught in a forbidden love triangle with a Roman soldier and a fellow priestess, Yoncheva can be forceful in declamation — the singing that’s more like speechifying.

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At Weill, it emerged with earth-rumbling intensity, as Tines wrapped his luscious voice around its punishing declamations with athletic fervor.

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The English songwriter and producer Sipho Ndhlovu revels in drama and desperation, with a voice that regularly leaps between grainy declamation and a tearful falsetto.

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Nuance is not much favored in this age of declamation, of all or nothing, of presumption of guilt, of refusal to compromise.

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His sound world is brooding, with grimly hovering drones, enhanced by electronic effects, under heated declamation.

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