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 characters speak in dramatic, declamatory French, as if in a 19th-century play, and their costumes range from corseted dresses and shabby tailcoats to power suits and leather jackets.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 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
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
The Italian in England would remember and feel again the excitement of danger, and gratitude for delivery; but he would not employ descriptive gestures and declamatory presentation as if delivering an oration.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
