declamatory

Example Sentences

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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

Despite the added tension, the series is made with a dedication to keeping things from getting too sensational, too declamatory, too actorish.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 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

Contemporary with Rotrou were other dramatic writers of considerable dramatic importance, most of them distinguished by the faults of the Spanish school, its declamatory rodomontade, its conceits, and its occasionally preposterous action.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various