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
  • Two days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a rhetorical gap between Arizona politicos highlighted a major split for the congressional delegation, with some members turning to other matters or saying nothing at all.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer has taken an increasingly hard rhetorical line on immigration.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The rom-com canon receives a meaty and eloquent addition thanks to the acclaimed cast, consisting of Nicole Beharie, André Holland, and DeWanda Wise.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even the man who wrote eloquent romantic soliloquies that have endured centuries still royally pissed off his wife on the regular.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Traditional Fall Front Entry An impressive magnolia leaf garland framing this door makes for a stately and traditional fall front entry.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In the 1988 New Fashioned, a whiskey cocktail named for the year Vang’s family immigrated to the United States from the Thai refugee camp Ban Vinai, a stately ice cube is engraved with a geometric symbol evoking traditional Hmong embroidery.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • From romantic florals to elegant damasks and bucolic toile scenes, old-world wallpaper is making a grand and graceful return.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That honest, messy middle—where ambition meets uncertainty and growth doesn’t always look graceful—has been essential in making Issa’s work so resonant and enduring.
    Essence, Essence, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Declamatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/declamatory. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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