declamatory
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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
And he does so in an increasingly declamatory rather than melodic mode, never more than in Rienzi’s Act V prayer, “Allmächt’ger Vater.”
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2022
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
In the declamatory compositions of this age, we hear the echoes of the Guelf and Ghibelline wars.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
