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expressing feelings or opinions in a way that is loud and forceful
Her declamatory manner of speech inspired some but irritated others. declamatory speeches/statements
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Recent Examples of declamatory
The cast features nonprofessional actors drawn from the area; their declamatory style of performance, along with Mateus’s hieratic images, endow the movie’s dramatic realism with the power of myth.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
Yet the power in these two performances isn’t supplemented by much texture in the stern, declamatory writing: There’s little sense of how this relationship functions, or once functioned, outside these particularly fraught scenes.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2025
The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The main theme, a declamatory seven-note figure, later becomes the basis for a fantastical cadenza on vibraphone, played poetically by Yeh.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2024
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
Yet the power in these two performances isn’t supplemented by much texture in the stern, declamatory writing: There’s little sense of how this relationship functions, or once functioned, outside these particularly fraught scenes.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2025
The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The main theme, a declamatory seven-note figure, later becomes the basis for a fantastical cadenza on vibraphone, played poetically by Yeh.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for declamatory
Adjective
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Trinidad and Tobago, which has offered practical and rhetorical support to the administration's moves, declined to sign the agreement.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS,
Arkansas Online,
26 Feb. 2026
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Notwithstanding his rhetorical mistake in Atlanta, any future attacks that come from the tour will hold little water given his track record.—
Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There was eloquent solo playing in the orchestra, and extravagance from the solo singers.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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The meme’s brackets and asterisks—never has punctuation been so eloquent—seemed to step in where words failed.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Family members wiped away tears as the casket was brought into the stately brick building.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Feb. 2026
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Set high above the street on three separate parcels spanning nearly half an acre, the stately columned and porticoed property offers four bedrooms and five bathrooms in roughly 4,400 square feet.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Just like Tarzan’s graceful swing from vine to vine, the elephant graveyard was just a bit of movie script invention.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
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It’s estimated that about 100 of the hulking-yet-graceful animals live in the lower stretch of the San Gabriel River, where salt and freshwater commingle.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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Anyone expecting Draper to be bombastic about his immediate prospects will be disappointed, however.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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He was tasked with putting the film into theaters with that bombastic Imax sound.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Martha had no interest in Franco’s aristocratic, fascist Nationalists.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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The American groups always had very aristocratic, wonderful names.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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That wasn’t Newsom’s only oratorical slip-up, although the second one says more about the larger Democratic Party than anything else.—
Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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With his height and his oratorical flourishes, Jackson was a charismatic figure who led protests in Greensboro.—
Johanna Neuman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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