declamatory
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“Romeo and Juliet” was tackled with a youthful vigor and violence that proved shocking to those expecting the customary declamatory elegance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
Aldridge favored a relatively realistic approach — a striking contrast to the more declamatory, posturing star turns then in vogue.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
And that's on top of the condemnations online and on television, the boycotts and the declamatory emails from universities, banks and corporations.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 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
The generici or common-places were sententious maxims, descriptions, outpourings of emotion, humorous and fanciful diatribes, declarations of passion, love-laments, ravings, reproaches, declamatory outbursts, which could be employed ad libitum whenever the situation rendered them appropriate.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
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