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As interviewees chatter and declaim, Macdonald regularly cuts to runway imagery, which is certainly more enjoyable than enduring Galliano’s prejudices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Brook loved to declaim that he had no answers, because there are no answers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
“The folding type of this cooling device became accepted in China during the Ming dynasty,” Mr. Trebek might declaim, as competitors raced to buzz in with the reply, “What is a fan?”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2020
You may use this page to declaim loudly, recite verse, or pursue areas of freewheeling, off topic discourse.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2020
He was also an accomplished actor, who loved to declaim Shakespeare aloud.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Moor Mother seethes about Black achievements met with disrespect in “We Got the Jazz”: “We ain’t ’bout to stand for no national anthem,” she declaims.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
“I’ve been painting up for 25 years,” the 50-year-old declaims, his voice building into a steady rumble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
Of her own content creation, another character declaims, defensively, “It’s creative nonfiction, which is a valid response in an attention economy.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
Plus, the critic in me is hard-pressed to resist a movie in which a character declaims whole paragraphs of Pauline Kael without explanation.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2020
“Fellow Dominicans!” he declaims in a grainy voice.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Because many colonists were illiterate, the Declaration was commonly declaimed by local officials in town squares and preachers in pulpits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
As Weaver's Prospero declaimed "Come forth, I say," Hayley sprang from her seat and rushed the stage with Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer from Tyneside.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
“Oh Allah make it easy for them to reach there, and bless us with the death of a martyr,” he declaimed, his voice reverberating through the mosque’s loudspeakers.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Like many, he once declaimed the rampant use of exclamation marks but later defended them, going so far as to make a case for the Interrobang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Isaac declaimed a prayer of his own devising.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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But Mr. Sorkin has never been mature and nuanced before, and he’s not about to start; self-righteous declaiming is what suits him, now as ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
We passed multiple radar speed signs, declaiming mph numbers, beseeching drivers to slow down.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
Early on he’s watchful, stealthy, testing his own resolve, murmuring his lines rather than declaiming them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Several mortals have found favor in her circle, but since I have no real skill with a lute or declaiming, I have no chance of being one of them.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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