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

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

For all its gestures at moral ambiguity, Shaw’s script is a mostly blunt, simple, declamatory affair.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021

Duclos was only a representative of the declamatory school, and if Mlle.

From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel