declamatory
adjective
de·clam·a·to·ry
di-ˈkla-mə-ˌtȯr-ē 
: of, relating to, or marked by declamation or rhetorical display
declamatory speeches
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The action lurches from overt satire to romantic jousting and soap-operatic family melodrama; the performances have a declamatory pseudo-amateurism in keeping with the film’s statements of personal self-assertion and political purpose.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
That starts with the declamatory choice to populate historically white genres with predominantly Black casts.
—Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
Hilson’s performance is of a different register than most of the rest of the cast — haltingly realistic in an otherwise declamatory play.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
Dahan has cast the movie well, including small roles for Philippe Torreton and Sylvie Testud, but his preference for short, punchy scenes and declamatory lines does his actors no favors.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
But the whole show is well cast and performed, and even when the action feels overly constructed or declamatory — and there is a rash of declamation toward the season’s end — there is something or someone pleasing to latch onto.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
The 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
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
That starts with the declamatory choice to populate historically white genres with predominantly Black casts.
—Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
Hilson’s performance is of a different register than most of the rest of the cast — haltingly realistic in an otherwise declamatory play.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
Dahan has cast the movie well, including small roles for Philippe Torreton and Sylvie Testud, but his preference for short, punchy scenes and declamatory lines does his actors no favors.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
But the whole show is well cast and performed, and even when the action feels overly constructed or declamatory — and there is a rash of declamation toward the season’s end — there is something or someone pleasing to latch onto.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
The 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
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“Declamatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/declamatory. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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