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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
These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.
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Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.
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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.
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Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2024
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Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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
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But Trump so far, it’s mostly been rhetorical.
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Beginning in her early teens, Joyce loved watching Kirk’s debates on Instagram, seeing in them not carefully honed rhetorical tactics but authentic civility.
Adjective
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Just as hedgehogs deplore foxes for a lack of theoretical ambition, foxes spend their time screaming at hedgehogs for missing this or that eloquent detail.
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His head is freshly shaved and that same cheeky, yet surprisingly eloquent Egg-ness immediately comes through over our half-hour interview.
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Hallowed Halls turns your home into a stately Victorian manor, complete with spooky portraits, eerie black-and-gold decor, and even a few séance essentials.
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The red brick and limestone structure cuts a stately, purposely demure profile.
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Their beauty also shapes traditional dance in Rwanda, with graceful movements performed by women who extend their arms to mimic the cows’ horns.
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The graceful trailing stems and showy flowers of climbing hydrangeas (Hydrangea anomala) look beautiful growing on pergolas and fences.
Adjective
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Clive was big, and bombastic, and brave, and full of ideas, and just believed, believed, believed, believed.
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There’s a strange irony—though, perhaps, little surprise—that this is how the bombastic Tory politico is now spending his time.
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The Sound and The Fury Told by four narrators in a stream of consciousness writing style, this 1929 story describes the downfall of a wealthy Southern aristocratic family, the Compsons.
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Because of previous demand, over 20,000 people had been employed in buckle manufacture in the Birmingham area, but when this aristocratic fashion suddenly collapsed in 1786 on the eve of the French Revolution, their trade collapsed along with it.
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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.
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With his height and his oratorical flourishes, Jackson was a charismatic figure who led protests in Greensboro.
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“Declamatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/declamatory. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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