How to Use declamatory in a Sentence

declamatory

adjective

• The story is narrated by Bahar herself in her slightly breathless, declamatory voice.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
• 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
• These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.
  — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• The avoidance of declamatory pomp is admirable, but too often the actors’ delivery robs the language of its poetry and expressiveness.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Unfortunately, some of the singing parts were dull, in that didactic, declamatory manner which has so often sunken American operas.
  — Phillip Larrimore, charlotteobserver, 4 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That starts with the declamatory choice to populate historically white genres with predominantly Black casts.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• In fashion meetings André was highly opinionated, and loudly declamatory.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Every thought and motive is spelled out with declamatory zeal, and the lack of subtext, or even subtlety, is particularly problematic when trying to incorporate the complexities of gender inequality and sexuality.
  — Philip Brandes, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• 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.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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