He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : a pompous, declamatory manner of speech. From Dictionary.com.
With Lawes, then, what we may call the declamatory branch of the English school culminated. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
The elder executed a third‑degree declamatory gesture. From Wordnik.com. [Nor Crystal Tears]
Roger Horned on his best declamatory barrister's manner. From Wordnik.com. [THE GREAT ESCAPE]
He ended at last with a Ciceronian, declamatory outburst. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
“The Assyrian Came Down,” and other declamatory gems. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
They commenced with a sort of prelude, slow and declamatory. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
There was no shouting, there was no loud declamatory rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: George W. Bush Arrives in Philadelphia - August 2, 2000] Reference
Ranji paid little attention to the declamatory Trials official. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
He does not move us by declamatory gestures and forced attitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
It is, indeed, in the recitatives and declamatory passages of Gluck. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
Cochrane sounded astonished, then again assumed his declamatory pose. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
How strange those declamatory utterances in hearing of his father and. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Montalembert speaks in a similar strain of French declamatory eloquence. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
"Oh!" he said, continuing to intoxicate himself with declamatory phrases. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
David Cameron was declamatory: "Let me tell you: opportunism never works!". From Wordnik.com. [Romance and flummery in bling heaven] Reference
I won't have you making any more declamatory love-scenes, you dreadful boy!. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
And without being asked, he recited in a declamatory tone verses ending thus. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What vanity to their nicer ears must be the sonorous and declamatory orator's breath!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
Fox, in his declamatory bursts, was superior to every speaker whom I have ever heard. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
On Tuesday a declamatory contest was given by the young women of the normal department. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 9, September, 1896] Reference
'I shall repay the debt Prussia owes to Menzel,' he spoke, not without declamatory effect. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
He reacted passionately against the declamatory high acting style of the British thea-tah. From Wordnik.com. [Anything Goes at Shakespeare in the Park!] Reference
It was they who inspired the highest flights of declamatory eloquence in Persius and Juvenal. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Burr was smooth, polished, concise, never diffuse or declamatory, always serious and impressive. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
There are some cases in which no language can be declamatory because no words can aggravate them. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation] Reference
His delivery was far from animated, and his intonation was rather conversational than declamatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Others, not so declamatory, persist, however, in confounding riches with egoism and insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The excitement was too much for him; he had been keeping time with his tail to this declamatory crescendo. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
To say it now, precisely when to say things has a real and not simply a declamatory or theoretical significance. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO COMMENTS ON CZECHOSLOVAK CRISIS] Reference
The distinguished orator was certainly more declamatory than argumentative, and he was repeatedly called to order. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Amaranthe had uttered the last words in a declamatory tone; you might have thought them a quotation from her mamma. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
This habit of declamatory chanting slightly affected his conversation, as we have seen in his interview with Dumay. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
Of course, everyone turned to look at the stairs nearest them to see who was arriving with such declamatory aplomb. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Minimal Weekend] Reference
His exact declamatory manner, as he managed it, only served to convey the points of his dialogue with more precision. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
In declamatory singing, on the contrary, the consonants should be articulated with greater deliberation and intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
Grabbing them, he locked them up, announcing with a declamatory flourish, "Once more into the guestroom, dear friends!". From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
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