declamatory

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Recent Examples of declamatory 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 See All Example Sentences for declamatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for declamatory
Adjective
  • These messages are more than rhetorical escalation.
    Stephanie A, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But Chicago and New York are Democratic strongholds and frequent targets of the president’s rhetorical ire, so the moves on spending are plainly perceived as a new front in the shutdown battle.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Creature survives, becomes smarter and even eloquent, and vengefully chases Frankenstein all the way to the Arctic.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Kidman was eloquent and warm, leavening her more introspective thoughts with a twinkly laugh.
    Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Relax in the Spanish-style courtyard garden, or take a dip in San Antonio’s largest heated pool, all while surrounded by a rich blend of historic architecture and stately palm trees.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The same restrained values of democracy have always marked the White House—a stately house, but not an imperial one.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Butler leads with steady confidence, and Williams follows with a dainty, graceful flow that draws every eye in the room.
    Alexa Stone Updated October 21, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In Hubble's recent image, NGC 6951 unfurls its graceful spiral arms, covered in red nebulae glowing with hydrogen gas, a key fuel for new stars.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Declamatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/declamatory. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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