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
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
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
Another fault in the rendering of the monologue is a declamatory tendency.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
