How To Use Declaim In A Sentence
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These lines make far more sense when declaimed than when simply read out.
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he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Only Thor's evil brother, Loki Tom Hiddleston, gets to declaim any flavorsome lines.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower
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`Television is a strange place in which to seek truth, still less declaim it.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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It is not sung, but only declaimed, and the music is like an obbligato recitative.
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Speeches declaimed from the front of the stage explore theories about what is real and when an illusion becomes reality.
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The bassline thumps and voices declaim, growl or howl.
Times, Sunday Times
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No handwringing, no declaiming the end of Western civilization due to loose-moraled hipsters and free agent nation types swapping spit and job leads on the Internet.
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`The Lord Bunting of Cheam," declaimed emcee Fotheringhay.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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Eminem, now wearing a smart suit and red tie, declaims in a style reminiscent of Martin Luther King.
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Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
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In 1926, when O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, was produced, there were violent scenes, Yeats declaiming to the audience that they had disgraced themselves again.
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As an actor he was accustomed to declaim the lines written for him fluently, but seemed to be having trouble in expressing his own thoughts.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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That these same words had been declaimed ten years earlier in rather different circumstances is not mentioned.
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Boehner says that whoever runs against Obama will have to want to make a smaller government and love America, but not love America in a way that forces Boehner to say, "I take him at his word that he loves America," rather, one that makes Boehner declaim with certainty, "He loves America.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning.
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
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He raised his right fist and declaimed: 'Liar and cheat!'.
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He's bellowing over the music, declaiming Green policies.
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He once started a concert by declaiming, in the haughtiest classical French, ‘I want to make one thing clear before I begin.’
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From the latter, there are some who pretend to be free: they are generally such as declaim against the lust of wealth and power, because they have never been able to attain any high degree in either: they boast of generosity and feeling.
The Man of Feeling
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Of late an act of Parliament has passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other, in matter of libel; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman, many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful acquisition to the liberty of the press.
Life of Johnson
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It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
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She wrote a book declaiming against our corrupt society.
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Darwinism, political and social, has, like an epidemic, for many years invaded the mind of more than one thinker, and many more of the advocates and declaimers of sociology, and it has been reflected as a fashionable habit and a phraseological current even in the daily language of the politicians.
Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History
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He would be incensed at having been entrapped by an ignorant enthusiastic declaimer into an admiration of objects whose authenticity may be questioned by the first cool examinant.
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Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the
The Scab
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It must be thus, as Ayers declaimed in a 2006 speech in Venezuela, because “capitalism promotes racism and militarism—turning people into consumers, not citizens.”
Deconstructing Obama
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Mark Antony declaimed over the body of Caesar.
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He looked over at the older boy, whose expression eloquently declaimed that the whole world had conspired against him since the day of his birth.
A Call to Arms
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It is absurd to declaim about "expatriation" and to declare such a movement forced and unnatural.
History of Liberia Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
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Mark Antony declaimed over the body of Caesar.
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So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone (people falling to their knees and declaiming ‘you've torn out my soul’ and all that sort of thing) that I find most of it laughable.
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I read Farrier's autopsy report, hearing Ava's voice declaim it into the air for transcription.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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Claude Debussy Paris, France, 1902This sensuous, Symbolist tragedy in 12 tableaux marks a radical departure: instead of arias and set pieces, the text is declaimed, inspired by Wagner, over an ever-moving orchestration.
Top 50 operas
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Although suspicious of unknown admirers, Tennyson was a sociable man, with a fondness for declaiming his work to a respectful audience.
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Do they read traditional suppliers of journalistic information, or mostly declaimers of opinions?
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His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.
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The latter is the single, Sexiest Man in Jamaica, a zippy bit of fun in which Prince Buster rustily declaims his sexiness over an orchestral victory march.
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I swear, I've come to suspect that truth is in inverse proportion to the certitude of the declaimer.
R.I.P.
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These lines make far more sense when declaimed than when simply read out.
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It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
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Moore, Thomas (1779 – 1852): Irish poet whose performances as a singer and declaimer, not least of his own Irish Melodies (1808 – 34), won him fashionable success in London.
Index of People
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In the background, three singers at a time lay down text in slow, distant, near-triadic progressions, while the others declaim the text in fragmented bursts.
Magna Carter (5): Role modeling
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The same schoolboy would put to silence the pompous declaimer
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Yet it is a neat idea to turn his soppier definitions of love into verses declaimed from a notebook.
Times, Sunday Times
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Andrew continued to declaim, in relentless detail, the economic perils of a prolonged land war.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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So there we were, declaiming the lines, complete with interpretive dance, and the audience sat there completely straight-faced and took everything seriously.
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Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.
THE SCAB
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He has one of those public school faces that was created solely to stare up at blue English skies from a gently rocking punt while a tousle-haired type declaims Rupert Brooke.
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‘It is all a matter of resources,’ she declaimed.
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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“They would know that licensing—a requirement of prior approval—'is but weaknes and cowardise in the wars of Truth,'” he declaimed, warming to his topic.
When Puppet Shows Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Puppet Shows
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These lines make far more sense when declaimed than when simply read out.
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Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
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Her story is also similar to that of Sister Tissā. 108 And it was the 'Glory-verse' through which she won Arahantship that she declaimed in exultation:
Psalms of the Sisters
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‘Those words mean something to me,’ he declaimed.
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Andrew continued to declaim, in relentless detail, the economic perils of a prolonged land war.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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He raised his right fist and declaimed: 'Liar and cheat!'.
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Did you know (he declaimed triumphantly, shedding the opera-cloak to reveal an anorak) that during WWII there were a number of accidents (all crown-sheet failures) in American locomotives in use here which were caused by the inability of British footplatemen to read their modern and sophisticated Klinger reflex-type water-gauges?
Libertarian Blog Place
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These lines make far more sense when declaimed than when simply read out.
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I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to “that poor Holofernes.”
Les Miserables
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Saurin in _Spartacus_ (1760) declaimed and dissertated in the manner of Voltaire.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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The moment, however, he published in octavo volumes a solid history, and appended to the bottom of each page the obscure authorities on which his narrative was founded, and which plainly exhibited the capacity of the brilliant declaimer to perform all the austerest duties of the drudge, his reputation marvellously increased among the most frigid and most exacting dispensers of praise.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
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The depth of feeling that burns inside bin Laden about his holy war could be seen during the January 10, 2001, wedding ceremony of his son Muhammad, where one of his youngest sons, then aged eight, made a short speech captured on video in which he declaimed, I stand for a jihad against the infidels today and shall do so until eternity.
The Longest War
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The toilets are precious few, with excruciatingly long queues, and when Henthorn comes back, he declaims, "Whoever planned this thing was no logistician.
Tea Party road trip: What the movement wants -- and why
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So there we were, declaiming the lines, complete with interpretive dance, and the audience sat there completely straight-faced and took everything seriously.
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‘The Tory party is immortal,’ he declaims, though he is hazier about precisely when its political fortunes will revive.
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There's a fierce gray bird with a bending beak," that the boys loved so dearly to "declaim;" and another poem by this last author, which we all liked to read, partly from a childish love of the tragic, and partly for its graphic description of an avalanche's movement: --
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf ?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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In conversation, the lively spirit of dialogue is agreeable, even to those who desire not to have any share in the discourse: hence the teller of long stories, or the pompous declaimer, is very little approved of.
An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
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His role as declaimer seemed attached to, not intrinsic to the opera.
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And Selpa scolded me to sleep, and in the morning woke me with her chatter, ever declaiming against my madness, ever pronouncing her claim upon me and the claims of our children, till in the end I grew weary, and forsook my far vision, and said never again would I dream of bestriding the wild horse to fly swift as its feet and the wind across the sands and the grass lands.
Chapter 21
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Jean – Jacques a declaimer; Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers.
Les Miserables
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She declaimed against the evils of capitalism.
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Mesmerized by his own visions, Hitler did much of the talking, lecturing and declaiming on his plans to motorize Germany and build new highways.
The Prize
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As soon as he speaks, all you hear is some sixth-former declaiming bad poetry.
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The senator declaimed against higher taxes.
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Cicero, who declaimed so vehemently at the notion of crucifying a Roman citizen, had not a word to say against these horrible abuses of victory.
Democracy in America, volume 2
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While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill?
St. Ronan's Well
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In The Brothers Karamazov, he has his Grand Inquisitor declaim: ‘Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom’.
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The senator declaimed against the opposition.
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Sots vieux, nouveaux, et sots de tous ages, _ "thus he scornfully declaimed," and as yokefellow with Dan Merlin in his thorn-bush, and with wise Salomon when he capered upon the high places of Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin within the net of
Chivalry
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
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As an actor he was accustomed to declaim the lines written for him fluently, but seemed to be having trouble in expressing his own thoughts.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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He raised his right fist and declaimed: 'Liar and cheat!'.
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Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak.
CHAPTER XXI
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It was, however, too late, or at least useless, to declaim against the folly of those who had; and he found sufficient employment in appeasing the distress of his wife and daughters, while he sent Orlando to entertain the General.
The Old Manor House
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You can actually understand his words, and he declaims poetry as if he knows what it means.
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I read Farrier's autopsy report, hearing Ava's voice declaim it into the air for transcription.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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I am often spotted pedaling about, declaiming from the prologue: "Whan that Apryll, with his shoures soote," etc. etc. etc.
From The BSNYC Culture Desk: Art and Transience
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Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.
THE SCAB
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He that is to reprove is to remember, that his business is not to declaim and shew his parts, but to work a cure.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
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He declaimed — “This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the business-man, the working-man himself, falling asleep at night, lying down to peaceful sleep, trembled lest he should be awakened suddenly by the noise of incendiary tocsins, when the most subversive doctrines audaciously sapped foundations.”
Madame Bovary
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Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem.
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Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State?
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As an actor he was accustomed to declaim the lines written for him fluently, but seemed to be having trouble in expressing his own thoughts.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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Apollonios of Athens won a name for himself among the Greeks as an able speaker in the legal branch of oratory, and as a declaimer he was not to be despised.
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And Selpa scolded me to sleep, and in the morning woke me with her chatter, ever declaiming against my madness, ever pronouncing her claim upon me and the claims of our children, till in the end I grew weary, and forsook my far vision, and said never again would I dream of bestriding the wild horse to fly swift as its feet and the wind across the sands and the grass lands.
Chapter 21
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At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement.
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The senator declaimed against the opposition.
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Sots vieux, nouveaux, et sots de tous ages, _ "thus he scornfully declaimed," and as yokefellow with Dan Merlin in his thorn-bush, and with wise Salomon when he capered upon the high places of Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin within the net of
Chivalry
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He excelled, from his earliest youth, in the manufacture of chirurgical instruments, and was already known as a skilful artist in that way, when his inclination for the stage caused him to neglect his profession, in order to declaim tragedy.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810
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High points include the assessment of the orator Cassius Severus and his comparative failure as a declaimer.
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Doesn't matter if he's in a wheelchair!" declaimed Officer Too Bad.
John Marshall: Sane-dinista!
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Such, for example, is the labour of the musical performer, the actor, the public declaimer or reciter, and the showman .
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The billionaire is so proud of and confident in his every malefaction, he declaims them from the rooftop.
Our Mayor Is a Square, Part II
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‘NGOs could be playing a more significant role,’ Omayma Khalil, secretary of the Women's National Council at Al-Tor City Council declaims.
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`Television is a strange place in which to seek truth, still less declaim it.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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Only Thor's evil brother, Loki Tom Hiddleston, gets to declaim any flavorsome lines.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower
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Few actors carry with them such a clear, familiar repertoire of gestures, movements, ways of speaking, declaiming.
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SCOTT SIMON, host: In Washington, D.C. this week, something happened just a few blocks from Congress, where politicians debate and declaim about illegal immigrants.
Anonymous Hero Showed American Spirit
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Andrew continued to declaim, in relentless detail, the economic perils of a prolonged land war.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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I read Farrier's autopsy report, hearing Ava's voice declaim it into the air for transcription.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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`Television is a strange place in which to seek truth, still less declaim it.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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She declaimed the famous opening speech of the play.
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`The Lord Bunting of Cheam," declaimed emcee Fotheringhay.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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Bletterie himself nothing more than a disingenuous, dishonest declaimer.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Chaos would obtain in district and appellate courts across the country, if all of a sudden everybody with an Article III pedigree becomes an equally authoritative declaimer of the constitution.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Supreme Court Without Stare Decisis:
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Hartwell declaimed that the blushing girls just out of the schoolroom more than made up for the terror that passed as supper and the antiquated dance styles.
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Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem.
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Beautifully staged, with wonderfully spoken rather than declaimed language which makes it so much more understandable… at moments it seemed almost modern though I don't think the script was adapted at all.
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The hundreds of guests at the marriage feast cheered him on with chants of “Allah Akbar!” as he declaimed his poem, a performance that was videotaped for Al Jazeera by Zaidan.
The Longest War
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It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
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One can fancy the whole passage spoken by an orator; indeed it is difficult to resist the illusion that it was "declaimed" before it was written.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature