How To Use Clamorous In A Sentence
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Personally, I hold to a somewhat optimistic - and rather unfashionable in the present age of clamorous and overassertive Deconstructivism - view that system and structure (and consequently - progress and consolidating knowledge), as far as literary theory is concerned, are not dirty words.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
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a crowd of clamorous porters and _tartana_ drivers -- one of the scenes characteristic of landing in a country where police regulations do not exist ensued.
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
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With the scene of the denial, for which we are thus prepared, the dramatic movement becomes exceedingly rapid, and the rendering of the events in the high-priest's hall -- Peter's bass recitative alternating its craven protestations with the clamorous agitato chorus of the servants -- is stirring in the extreme.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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She longed for siblings and pets and a lively, clamorous household.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Mrs. West rushed through the second verse of the song, bowed breathlessly, and ran down the steps of the stage and back to the refuge of the balcony, while the audience applauded with perfunctory politeness and called clamorously to the musicians to "Let her go!
Cinderella And Other Stories
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The clamorous hunger in his belly seemed to justify him.
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This strategy has hollowed out the party so that it is in danger of forgetting its longstanding commitment to reform liberalism in favor of embracing whatever clamorous interest groups happen to want at the moment.
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The picture painted by Eric Kaufmann of future society divided clamorously between fundamentalist atheists and dogmatically religious groups is not pretty.
Rory Fitzgerald: Richard Dawkins and Atheist Crimes
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Here, ancient Akragas, with its valley of three superb 5th-century-BC temples, is neatly distinct from the tight, clamorous modern city.
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The place was teeming with life in all its clamorous glory, and it seemed I had stumbled upon a picaresque underworld where everyone had escaped from a Dickens yarn.
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I want to remember seedy, clamorous Omonia Square.
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If I see a bust of Caesar or stand in the silent ruins of his once clamorous palace, I reflect not on the greatness of his empire but on the greater empire of Time, which Rome and all her legions could not withstand.
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There is something of majesty on "laying one's self down with a will," and there is something of strength in cloistering the body for the spirit's health's sake, but to die when all within is warm and clamorous for life is terrible.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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To those who did not think so deeply, and they were the greater number by a hundred to one, the splendour of Prince John's _rheno_, (_i. e_. fur tippet,) the richness of his cloak, lined with the most costly sables, his maroquin boots and golden spurs, together with the grace with which he managed his palfrey, were sufficient to merit clamorous applause.
Ivanhoe
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Then the LUCCIOLA, the fire-fly of Tuscany, was seen to flash its sudden sparks among the foliage, while the cicala, with its shrill note, became more clamorous than even during the noon-day heat, loving best the hour when the English beetle, with less offensive sound, winds
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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A clamorous group from the North-East who had started drinking at lunchtime lurched down one side of Micklegate, while on the other a hen night gathering from North Wales set about their task with equal enthusiasm.
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It isn't until you find yourself fighting the clamorous daytime traffic to get to your business meetings that you start having second thoughts.
A Business Traveler's Guide to Naples
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As soon as the clamorous ring echoes through the school corridors, youngsters cram all their books and pencils into their school bags and join the mad scramble to leave the classroom.
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They don't get to their apartment and the bath floods but they do make a sickeningly clamorous protest in trying.
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The long middle movement, marked allegro agitato, and associated by Bloch with Yom Kippur, has an intense and clamorous opening but the mood alternated between that and pensive intervals.
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He must hope that after clamorous calls for his resignation, he himself is not placed before the PM's firing squad.
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It used the shell of the earth valley for its trumpetings, its clangors — but as one hears in the murmurings of the fluted conch the great voice of ocean, its whispering and its roarings, so here in the clamorous shell of the
The Metal Monster
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Then there was a clamorous demand for "wharfage," and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile.
The Englishwoman in America
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The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame.
THE LONELY SEA
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His uneasiness when the whip was used, testified by clamorous complaints, made the whole scene so amusing that the depredators were allowed to depart without a word of remonstrance.
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They have not led him here down from the fabulous hills to this bald alien plain and the clamorous world to kill but simply to teach him to dance
Best Canadian Poem?
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Among the clamorous was his old friend and fellow balladeer, Bret Harte.
The Five of Hearts
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The amiable residents talk of their future as the next Puerto Vallarta while they wave towels to keep off the abundant mosquitoes, and inquire if you don’t find their town tranquilo while you yawn, stupefied from a night clamorous with the sound of competing bands which played until 3 a.m.
Nayarit: San Blas, Tepic and in between
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Then there was a clamorous demand for “wharfage,” and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile.
The Englishwoman in America
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I was pleasantly surprised to discover a clamorous, dim room filled with networked computers available dirt-cheap.
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His throat gaped, his chest heaved, his eyes squeezed shut involuntarily, and then with a clamorous noise, he let loose a sneeze that put even the colossal thunder crashing in the sky above to shame.
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The patient, notwithstanding the dreadful ordeal which he has just passed, calls clamorously for his accustomed drink, the cause of all his woes.
Lectures on the Utility of Temperance Societies. Lecture I. On Intemperance as a National Evil. Lecture II. On Intemperance as a Source of Disease. Lecture III. On Temperance Societies
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a clamorous uproar
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She longed for siblings and pets and a lively, clamorous household.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Jack, Chuck's Mexico friend, is an Alaskan whose views towards his host country were much more charitable than those of his companion as expressed at a table where we had joined them for a conversation during a prowl of the malecón, one of those clamorous arteries of commerce which parallel the beaches on oceans and inland lakes alike.
Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
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Indian and half breed women gazed stolidly at the strange vehicle, while the children and barking dogs clamorously advertised its progress.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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Our manufacturing industry has deliquesced into nothing; we no longer dig coal or smelt iron, and the clamorous workshops of Asia take care of our textiles.
It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity...
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This rich brew of classical, folk and modern musical influences makes for a sometimes clamorous collage of phrases.
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The British Government of India had acknowledged this Regency, and was desirous to retain amicable relationship with the Punjaub, but in the middle of the year 1845, so unruly and clamorous for war was the Sikh army, all negotiations terminated, and a state of uncertainty ensued which made it necessary for British India, without declaring hostility, to place itself on a footing to resist it, should so mad an enterprise ensue.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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But to me the most frightening aspect of the whole disaster was that the clamorous Tasman Sea went suddenly quiet - eerily so - and though I waited for its comforting roar to resume, I can't remember ever hearing it so noisy again.
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His demands for republication, for objective critical recognition, became clamorous.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In June he complained to Robinson that people owed money by the regiment had “grown very clamorous” and might sue if the next appropriation was insufficient and went to pay the troops instead of civilian vendors.
George Washington’s First War
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Then there was a clamorous demand for “wharfage,” and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile.
The Englishwoman in America
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One reason is that our image of her art is so bound up with its first clamorous appearance.
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We stare back in distress, pondering the prospect of spending the better part of two hours at a clamorous pre-teen boys' party.
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Aber Cuawg, singing 'clamorously' to the sick man: 'there are that hear them that will not hear them again!' the sound of the large wave grating sullenly on the pebbles, --
Figures of Several Centuries
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The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame.
THE LONELY SEA
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The calls for them to scrunch their locks is nonetheless clamorous, due to the sheer success of the scheme.
A Good Time Beats A Long Time
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The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed.
III.4
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Philosophy, one of the poets says, is but ‘a clamorous hound, baying at her master’; the philosopher, says another, is ‘great’ only ‘in the vain babblements of fools’.
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When the dinner hour arrives, he bangs about as clamorously as possible, crashing the door into the coatrack, simulating a coughing fit on his way out, all to ensure that Eileen across the hall hears him leaving for his supposed dinner plans, although no such plans exist.
'The Imperfectionists'
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Then, when hunger made them desire to go on with the repast, finding there was nought upon the table, they called clamorously for the cook.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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What has made the tension between press and government especially "clamorous" is that people in charge of the Bush White House decided on a strategy for rolling back the national press.
Jay Rosen: "We are Covering the War on Terror, It's a Classified War."
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In his pocket was precisely the room - rent for the following week, the advance payment of which was already three days overdue and clamorously demanded by the hard - faced landlady.
CHAPTER XVII
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Drove down to the city center in the early afternoon and found a bar in which the lunchtime trade was brisk but not clamorous.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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Clinton the elder here withdrew, and had scarcely disappeared when two voices were heard in the hall, in a kind of clamorous remonstrance with each other, which voices were those of Father Magowan and our friend
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
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In the 16th and 17th centuries, the cries turned still more colourful and clamorous, as a kind of auditory arms race developed between the vendors.
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Drove down to the city center in the early afternoon and found a bar in which the lunchtime trade was brisk but not clamorous.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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At University College he entered literary life and joined a clamorous and rough-edged group of rivals who gave him the patterns of many of his most significant minor characters.
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Riotous they are, beyond a doubt, for even as the Che-hsein pours out the samshoo the clamorous howls of "Fankwae.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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Perhaps when all this is finished, she says, gesturing at the clamorous cement mixers and the spider's web of scaffolding, she will go away and give herself time to salve her sorrow, time to look back on precious memories, time to reflect.
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Evolved over hundreds of years and combining various influences from the history of the region - Gypsy, Sephardic, Moorish, Byzantine, and Latin American - flamenco is best to watch at fairs, where locals, often the best traditional flamenco dancers, who learned from childhood by watching relatives, burst into clamorous performances of stomping and clapping.
The Prague Post
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The clamorous hunger in his belly seemed to justify him.
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The day in mid-January when the sun peeps over the horizon for the first time is greeted with such clamorous celebrations that it's a wonder it doesn't scuttle back behind the hills in fright.
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So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent.
CHAPTER XXIII
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Instead of five years, let three years pass, and this clamorous Parlement shall have both seen its enemy hurled prostrate, and been itself ridden to foundering (say rather, jugulated for hide and shoes), and lie dead in the ditch.
The French Revolution
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The group of chess lovers is often clamorous, but always concentrating, with more gazers and supporters than real players; each viewer a potential undercover chess player.
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Both men are from Brooklyn, both have children named Satchel, both are basketball fans, devout Knicks supporters, and both have made the clamorous city of New York their sound stage.
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The legion still persisted in clamorous sedition, when the emperor pronounced, with
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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At its controversial opening night Nijinsky's choreography was considered almost as shocking as the churning rhythms and clamorous orchestration of Stravinsky's score.
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I was pleasantly surprised to discover a clamorous, dim room filled with networked computers available dirt-cheap.
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As on earlier discs, he enlivens Caribbean traditions with masterful jazz piano, by turns clamorous, poignant, playful and even swinging.
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Round the door of the Clifton House were about twenty ragged, vociferous drosky-drivers, of most demoralised appearance, all clamorous for “a fare.”
The Englishwoman in America
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The suspended beauty of dining upstairs comes at the expense of no acoustical buffer, and when the bar is clamorous, the sound rises up, rounds the arches, and comes crashing onto this suspended atoll like a final smackdown.
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To those who did not think so deeply, and they were the greater number by a hundred to one, the splendour of Prince John's rheno, (i.e. fur tippet,) the richness of his cloak, lined with the most costly sables, his maroquin boots and golden spurs, together with the grace with which he managed his palfrey, were sufficient to merit clamorous applause.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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So why are we suddenly hearing clamorous cries that we should, as the National Journal put it, "dismantle" this 40-year success story?
Carl Pope: If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it
