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 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

An inheritor of Drakeo the Ruler, who was killed this month — listen to their collaboration on “Ruth’s Chris Freestyle” — Remble is crisp and declamatory and, most disarmingly, deeply calm.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021

He had never made a speech in his life, and had no sort of confidence in his declamatory powers.

From Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Nilsen, Anthon Bernhard Elias