declamatory

Example Sentences

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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

By the mid-1980s, the breakneck and declamatory punk of Bad Brains and Minor Threat seemed to have exhausted itself.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021

This somewhat exaggerated production an old lady read aloud with declamatory emphasis, in whom at the first glance one perceived the Englishwoman and the spinster.

From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip