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 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
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
For all its gestures at moral ambiguity, Shaw’s script is a mostly blunt, simple, declamatory affair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
However imperfectly his speech may be reported, it has much of that energy of declamatory invective which is part of the tradition connected with his name.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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