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Declamatory
Declamatory meaning
Having the quality of a declamation. | Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
Example sentences (4)
Slim’s tenor voice manages to blend the nasality of John Lennon, the reedy folk-singing quality of Michael Nau (formerly of Cotton Jones and Page France), and the declamatory, aloof delivery of ‘60s-era rock ‘n’ roll Bob Dylan.
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.
It is characterized by melisma, wavy intonation, pitch instabilities within a pentatonic framework, and a declamatory voice.
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.