Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the quality of a declamation.
- adjective Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the practice of declaiming in oratory or music; having the character of declamation.
- Merely rhetorical; stilted; straining after effect: as, a declamatory style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician.
- adjective Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having the quality of a
declamation . - adjective
pretentiously lofty in style;bombastic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective ostentatiously lofty in style
Etymologies
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Examples
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With Lawes, then, what we may call the declamatory branch of the English school culminated.
Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891
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He's an intensely physical soloist, throwing himself into the declamatory phrases like a man following a particularly exacting fitness regime, but equally sensitive to those moments of melting tenderness.
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Mojo said, "Prophet delivers with quixotic swagger and declamatory sneer."
Mike Ragogna: The Goat Rodeo Rides Again (January 31): A Conversation With Stuart Duncan Plus Chatting With Chuck Prophet (Video Exclusives) Mike Ragogna 2012
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Mojo said, "Prophet delivers with quixotic swagger and declamatory sneer."
Mike Ragogna: The Goat Rodeo Rides Again (January 31): A Conversation With Stuart Duncan Plus Chatting With Chuck Prophet (Video Exclusives) Mike Ragogna 2012
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The slight, big-eyed figure of Almond singing in declamatory chest voice, until some hushed falsetto near the end, held the stage tellingly.
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As the declamatory, public-face Hoover, he gets the voice just right; as the private Hoover, however, lost in the film's monotonously sepia-toned murkiness, he's defeated by the script and the makeup department.
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The folkloric Russian lyrics are loopy and peppered with nonlinear wordplay, often barked out in declamatory Russian.
Mark Morris And His Joy of Text Robert Greskovic 2011
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Beginning in 1976 with the album Blue Moves, his rock influences became less pronounced, and a more churchlike English pop style emerged in ballads like “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” (1976), which typified the staid declamatory aura of his mature ballads.
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Boesch's methodology has often been described as expressionist, though in this instance he's less overtly declamatory than you might expect, singing the work as much off the lines as the text.
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A nod to Robert Frost's paean to youthful innocence Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stay Gold bristles with naive optimism – all shimmering guitars and declamatory idylls.
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