How to Use declamatory in a Sentence

declamatory

adjective

• What lets her down is the by-numbers plotting, together with the sort of flat, declamatory dialogue that might have been lifted from a teen-magazine photo story.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• The scenes are generally painted with urbane, rhythmically punchy big-band-style jazz, beefed up with strings, under declamatory vocal lines.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 16 June 2019
• The story is narrated by Bahar herself in her slightly breathless, declamatory voice.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
• Unfortunately, some of the singing parts were dull, in that didactic, declamatory manner which has so often sunken American operas.
  — Phillip Larrimore, charlotteobserver, 4 Nov. 2017
• The actors deliver their lines with stark and declamatory fervor, and their gestures have a sharp, sculptural stillness that’s reminiscent of the grand artifices of classic-Hollywood productions.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019
• This music’s restlessness stood out, muted chords giving way to declamatory strings, great swaths of orchestral sound punctuated by bursts of percussion and startling pauses.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The play’s director is an ambitious modernist whose project for the tragedy involves a declamatory style of performance and an abstractedly ritualistic choreography.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 June 2022
• Slam poets, inheriting the declamatory style of African American feminist poet Ntozake Shange, democratized poetry from its literary journal stuffiness with beer, wine and laughter, as well as hip-hop bravado.
  — Ed Morales, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• In fashion meetings André was highly opinionated, and loudly declamatory.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2022
• Bass-baritone Davóne Tines was a gripping, theatrical Malcolm, making the most of the character’s monochromatic, declamatory vocal line and physically embodying his transformation from bitter hustler to magnetic, instinctive spokesman.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 23 May 2022
• Every thought and motive is spelled out with declamatory zeal, and the lack of subtext, or even subtlety, is particularly problematic when trying to incorporate the complexities of gender inequality and sexuality.
  — Philip Brandes, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• All written in a similar mode: authoritative, declamatory, distant, dispassionate, impersonal, and (allegedly) neutral.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2014

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024