: of, relating to, or marked by declamation or rhetorical display
declamatory speeches
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe play’s director is an ambitious modernist whose project for the tragedy involves a declamatory style of performance and an abstractedly ritualistic choreography. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 June 2022 Bass-baritone Davóne Tines was a gripping, theatrical Malcolm, making the most of the character’s monochromatic, declamatory vocal line and physically embodying his transformation from bitter hustler to magnetic, instinctive spokesman. Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 23 May 2022 In fashion meetings André was highly opinionated, and loudly declamatory. Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2022 This music’s restlessness stood out, muted chords giving way to declamatory strings, great swaths of orchestral sound punctuated by bursts of percussion and startling pauses. Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019 The actors deliver their lines with stark and declamatory fervor, and their gestures have a sharp, sculptural stillness that’s reminiscent of the grand artifices of classic-Hollywood productions. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019 What lets her down is the by-numbers plotting, together with the sort of flat, declamatory dialogue that might have been lifted from a teen-magazine photo story. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2019 The scenes are generally painted with urbane, rhythmically punchy big-band-style jazz, beefed up with strings, under declamatory vocal lines. Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 16 June 2019 Slam poets, inheriting the declamatory style of African American feminist poet Ntozake Shange, democratized poetry from its literary journal stuffiness with beer, wine and laughter, as well as hip-hop bravado. Ed Morales, Washington Post, 27 June 2019 See More