declamatory

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1. declamatory - Adjective

2. declamatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.

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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that. Emily Blunt

a man given to large talk Source: Internet

tumid political prose Source: Internet

It is characterized by melisma, wavy intonation, pitch instabilities within a pentatonic framework, and a declamatory voice. Source: Internet

Probably meant to be recited at elite gatherings, they differ from the Greek versions in their long declamatory, narrative accounts of action, their obtrusive moralizing, and their bombastic rhetoric. Source: Internet

There are softer, less declamatory moments: a spartan reprise of Peter Hammill’s Afterwards; a paean to swimming in Hampstead ladies’ pond; and a wistful finale with Freedom Song. Source: Internet

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