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
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
“Romeo and Juliet” was tackled with a youthful vigor and violence that proved shocking to those expecting the customary declamatory elegance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
It was in declamatory and didactic rhyme, with all that could consist with it, that Dryden excelled.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
