Sentence example with the word 'declamatory'

declamatory

affected, convoluted, flamboyant, forensic, grandiose, high-sounding, lofty, orotund, overwrought, sensational, stilted

Definition adj. ostentatiously lofty in style

Last update: October 7, 2015


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His speech was quite declamatory.   [Please select]

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After a dedicatory epistle to Alexander (chap. I) the opening of the treatise itself (chap. 2) is as follows: - " There are three genera of political speeches; one deliberative, one declamatory, one forensic: their species are seven; hortative, dissuasive, laudatory, vituperative, accusatory, defensive, critical."   [Please select]

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To a man they were drunk, belligerent and, declamatory.   [Please select]

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It was they who inspired the highest flights of declamatory eloquence in Persius and Juvenal.   [Please select]

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His tone was loud yet not declamatory, at first in a grumbling, grandfatherly, half-humorous, querulous accent that riveted every ear instantly.   [Please select]

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