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 • 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
“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
The author has forsaken the common-place rendering of the Apocrypha, and has adopted the same declamatory style which Shakespeare uses.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.
