declamatory

Example Sentences

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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

By the mid-1980s, the breakneck and declamatory punk of Bad Brains and Minor Threat seemed to have exhausted itself.

From Washington Post

“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

Aldridge favored a relatively realistic approach — a striking contrast to the more declamatory, posturing star turns then in vogue.

From Washington Post

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