declamation

How To Use declamation In A Sentence

• He's still asleep, I suppose, though he often wakes me with his morning declamations. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• Neil Tennant, for all his limitations, is one of the most human singers I know, and not in some Whitney / Britney sense that equates humanity with loud declamation of ersatz emotion.
• By now, a type of free-style declamation known as ‘recitative’ (literally ‘speech-song’) was being used to hurtle the drama forward.
• Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
• Schoenberg sought what he called ‘speech melody’ - something between declamation and song - and he devised a notation that indicated the rise and fall of the voice, as well as its rhythm.
• He summarises the anti-capitalists' annual international get-together at Porto Alegre in Brazil as ‘a ragbag of declamation, hot air and vapidity’.
• On the stage, Mrs Siddons senior and Mr John Kemble were remarkable for the solemn deliberation of their manner, both in declamation and action, and yet they were splendidly gifted in power.
• He represents nobility, order, German doctrinarianism and pathetic and wearisome declamation. Komediantka. English
• Here again it was of the barely lyrical declamation of Moussorgsky that the vendor reminded me, but not of it alone. The Captive
• Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation... Edwin Eisendrath: It's the Democracy, Stupid!