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
Castellucci has the spoken prologue of “Bluebeard,” a cameo role called the Bard, given with a declamatory grandeur that later matches the musicalized speech of the “Comoedia.”
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022
For all its gestures at moral ambiguity, Shaw’s script is a mostly blunt, simple, declamatory affair.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021
The song is loud, declamatory, and acceptable more for the pleasant thoughts it occasions than for the actual melody.
From School Reading by Grades Sixth Year by Baldwin, James
