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

“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 that's on top of the condemnations online and on television, the boycotts and the declamatory emails from universities, banks and corporations.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

The challenges of signing music multiply when it comes to polyphonic works like the Passion oratorios of Bach, with their complex tapestries of orchestral and vocal counterpoint and declamatory recitatives.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2021

The generici or common-places were sententious maxims, descriptions, outpourings of emotion, humorous and fanciful diatribes, declarations of passion, love-laments, ravings, reproaches, declamatory outbursts, which could be employed ad libitum whenever the situation rendered them appropriate.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo