declamatory

Example Sentences

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Hilson’s performance is of a different register than most of the rest of the cast — haltingly realistic in an otherwise declamatory play.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023

The draft feels like a café napkin sketch: schematic and brutally declamatory — the dialogue a parody of existentialist theater shouted through a bullhorn.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023

Castellucci has the spoken prologue of “Bluebeard,” a cameo role called the Bard, given with a declamatory grandeur that later matches the musicalized speech of the “Comoedia.”

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022

For all its gestures at moral ambiguity, Shaw’s script is a mostly blunt, simple, declamatory affair.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021

However imperfectly his speech may be reported, it has much of that energy of declamatory invective which is part of the tradition connected with his name.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose