declamatory

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Recent Examples of declamatory Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood. Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024 But there’s nothing boring in Coppola’s realization of this culminating drama, and none in Driver’s declamatory enthusiasm. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024 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 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 See All Example Sentences for declamatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for declamatory
Adjective
  • With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide.
    Matthew Redmond August 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Egypt's move further amplifies how mere rhetorical support for the Gazans only goes so far.
    Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Two of the game’s most brilliant villains have matured into eloquent eulogists.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • The gleaming veneer of artificial intelligence has captivated the world, with large language models producing eloquent responses that often seem indistinguishable from human thought.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the Knives Out mansion in Massachusetts serves as the show’s history- and mystery-blending centerpiece, and, with a stately estate in New York’s affluent Westchester County, suburban grandeur gets a modern twist in Apple TV+’s Your Friends & Neighbors.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The stately and imposing Graham McTavish helped lead Outlander as brawny war chief Dougal MacKenzie on the first two seasons of Outlander, though the actor would return for a couple more appearances later in the series.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Only the graceful styling and the classic neon sign gives any indication the motel was built in 1953.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Her community fastly feels the sharp absence of her graceful, essential labor and employs matriarch Ana (María Magdalena Sanizo) to coax her back home.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Declamatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/declamatory. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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