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

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

And that's on top of the condemnations online and on television, the boycotts and the declamatory emails from universities, banks and corporations.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

For all its gestures at moral ambiguity, Shaw’s script is a mostly blunt, simple, declamatory affair.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021

It gives power to change attention and suggests degrees of subjectivity, and thus tends to prevent the true spirit of the poem from being destroyed by oratorical or declamatory effects.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)