declamatory

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These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

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

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023

An inheritor of Drakeo the Ruler, who was killed this month — listen to their collaboration on “Ruth’s Chris Freestyle” — Remble is crisp and declamatory and, most disarmingly, deeply calm.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 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 Gozzi, Carlo