declamatory
adjective
de·clam·a·to·ry
di-ˈkla-mə-ˌtȯr-ē 
: of, relating to, or marked by declamation or rhetorical display
declamatory speeches
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The avoidance of declamatory pomp is admirable, but too often the actors’ delivery robs the language of its poetry and expressiveness.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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
Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
But there’s nothing boring in Coppola’s realization of this culminating drama, and none in Driver’s declamatory enthusiasm.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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
Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
But there’s nothing boring in Coppola’s realization of this culminating drama, and none in Driver’s declamatory enthusiasm.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Declamatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/declamatory. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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