as in speech
a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience
inspired declamations about the global triumph of democracy within our lifetimes
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Recent Examples of declamation
Darcy’s singing may sometimes bring to mind the stentorian declamations of the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, but there’s also a strain of petulant hot-guy brio in his voice that a Strokes fan might recognize.
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Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
Ideologues and power-mongers of many sorts, from brazen Black profiteers in Paris to frivolous white do-gooders, fill the frame with their declamations.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
But the whole show is well cast and performed, and even when the action feels overly constructed or declamatory — and there is a rash of declamation toward the season’s end — there is something or someone pleasing to latch onto.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
But don’t confuse Iggy’s rant or its wild musicality as a return to Stooges-like raucousness and institutional declamation for nostalgia.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
His sound world is brooding, with grimly hovering drones, enhanced by electronic effects, under heated declamation.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note: singing in recitative.
—Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
At the conclusion of his proud, if not defiant, presentation, a transfixed room roared in applause as Churchill was awarded the declamation prize.
—Tod Worner, National Review, 17 Oct. 2021
The music-making ranged from hushed reverie to hard-driving declamation, with Ward’s sometimes piercing, sometimes tender saxophone lines as focal point.
—Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2020
Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
Ideologues and power-mongers of many sorts, from brazen Black profiteers in Paris to frivolous white do-gooders, fill the frame with their declamations.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
But the whole show is well cast and performed, and even when the action feels overly constructed or declamatory — and there is a rash of declamation toward the season’s end — there is something or someone pleasing to latch onto.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
But don’t confuse Iggy’s rant or its wild musicality as a return to Stooges-like raucousness and institutional declamation for nostalgia.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
His sound world is brooding, with grimly hovering drones, enhanced by electronic effects, under heated declamation.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note: singing in recitative.
—Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
At the conclusion of his proud, if not defiant, presentation, a transfixed room roared in applause as Churchill was awarded the declamation prize.
—Tod Worner, National Review, 17 Oct. 2021
The music-making ranged from hushed reverie to hard-driving declamation, with Ward’s sometimes piercing, sometimes tender saxophone lines as focal point.
—Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2020
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“Declamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/declamation. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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