declamatory
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
Erasmus seems to have been the first who suspected the whole to be the declamatory composition of some rhetorician or sophist.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
