How To Use Declamation In A Sentence
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In contrast to the declamations of the bureaucrats and politicians, the mood among the workers at the rally was more somber.
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A flush overspread the face of De Warenne at this apostrophe; and forcing a smile, "This strict notion of right," said he, "is very well in declamation, but how would it crop the wings of conquerors, and shorten the warrior's arm, did they measure by this rule!
The Scottish Chiefs
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The actors rarely stay still for more than a moment, occasionally even rushing into the audience to issue yet another furious declamation.
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Montemezzi (1875-1952) was an Italian composer of the so-called verismo school, its music characterized by sumptuous Wagnerian orchestral writing, and an integration of broad melodies with declamation suggesting the rhythm of Italian speech.
Post-gazette.com - News
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But this should not be taken as evidence that the acting was mere declamation without emotion.
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We shall have a great deal of abuse, and reply and declamation from Bourk (148) (Burke), and vociferation from Lord Mahon, and perhaps a long day; and I must go down early, because I was yesterday when the House was called a defaulter; so I shall dine there, and after dinner I will collect upon paper what I hear of the transactions of the day.
George Selwyn His Letters and His Life
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At dawn he rose, mounted his horse, and left the village without a declamation, without a stated quest.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Every Saturday night a meeting is held, in which there are oration , declamation , dialogue, and debate.
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This movement sounded a bit broader than I am used to or would have expected: it plays with acuteness and every note gets its accentuation, its declamation.
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De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium, atque excellentia Verbi Dei, declamatio invectiva/On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Arts and Sciences: An Invective Declamation
Loss of Faith
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His Speech Day declamations, which took place on 5 July 1804, 6 June 1805, and 4 July 1805, played an important role in his self-fashioning.
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The burden of his declamation was the oppressive and unlawful system of taxation devised by Great Britain against her
The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief
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Every Thursday, the school organises competitions in areas such as recitation, extempore speech, quiz, map pointing, declamation and prepared talk.
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There followed a new piece by Thomas Larcher "What Becomes" which behaved like a curtain-raiser to Mussorgsky's Pictures being full of Mussorgskian rhetoric and declamation and the odd plucked and scraped piano string to assert its "nowness".
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Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.
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( "O, che volo d'angello"); her duet with Silvio in the third scene ( "E allor perchè"); the passionate declamation of Canio at the close of the first act ( "Recitur! mentre preso dal delirio"); the serenade of
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
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His booming declamation often manages to override the humorous intent of many of Beckett's lines.
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At the forum's height, it was not unknown for twenty or thirty meetings to proceed simultaneously, each speaker conducting a passionate, unamplified declamation.
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It differed from song as much as the declamation — barely coloured by imperceptible modulations — of Boris Godounov and Pelléas; but on the other hand recalled the psalmody of a priest chanting his office of which these street scenes are but the good-humoured, secular, and yet half liturgical counterpart.
The Captive
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At that time the name was given to the professional orators, who appeared in public with great pomp and delivered declamations either prepared beforehand or improvised on the spot.
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Now that shrill declamation is wearing decidedly thin with an electorate that is waking up to this overrated suburban solicitor.
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The fruity gravitas of the traditional actor's declamation had become a liability rather than an asset.
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Yet it may be made a question, whether this romantic kind of declamation, has much effect on the conduct of those, who leave, for a season, the crowded cities in which they were bred.
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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The rhapsodes who went about Greece reciting Homer and other poets had lost the distinction they once enjoyed, and 'rhapsody' became a synonym for idle declamation.
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
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Thus Queen Elizabeth I's rousing declamation to her troops at Tilbury in 1588 falls into this category since it is hinged to the crisis of the Spanish Armada.
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At the forum's height, it was not unknown for twenty or thirty meetings to proceed simultaneously, each speaker conducting a passionate, unamplified declamation, often punctuated by interjections and jeers.
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STUMius Orator, Ita in declamationibus disertus, ut, teste Trebellio Pollione, eius controversiae Quintiliano dicantur insertae.
Compediaria in Latium via; sive, Praestantiourum linguae Latinae scriptorum notitia ad usum Hispanae ivventutis
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The singing is a kind of declamation, with long slurs, frequent staccatos, and abrupt endings.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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Temkey's commanding vocal declamation and warm, high lying, distinctively French baritonal sound recall Francis Poulenc's collaborator and frequent interpreter Pierre Bernac.
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If we restrict such a universe to contain _only_ radiation, then its expansion and re-contraction are basically reversible and isentropic (I argued this back in the “Latest Declamations About the Arrow of Time” post, and you more-or-less agreed; see comments #60, 61 and 67 in that thread).
Against Bounces
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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.
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By now, a type of free-style declamation known as ‘recitative’ (literally ‘speech-song’) was being used to hurtle the drama forward.
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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.
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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.
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He summarises the anti-capitalists' annual international get-together at Porto Alegre in Brazil as ‘a ragbag of declamation, hot air and vapidity’.
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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.
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He represents nobility, order, German doctrinarianism and pathetic and wearisome declamation.
Komediantka. English
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Here again it was of the barely lyrical declamation of Moussorgsky that the vendor reminded me, but not of it alone.
The Captive
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Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation...
Edwin Eisendrath: It's the Democracy, Stupid!
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Declamations against the press are common enough.
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There are signs of the latter's influence within Pedro de Cristo's music, including a fondness for narrow overall ranges 16 notes being typical in the works of Francisco de Santa Maria and in the early part of Pedro de Cristo's surviving output, syllabic declamation in crotchets, and the simultaneous use of a cambiata figure in one part and passing notes in another.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Aeneas's opening declamation continues for nine more lines in the same fashion, and this speech is typical of all his others throughout the play.
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This remained the case through to William Beveridge, whose declamation of the five evils of ‘Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness’ would be almost unthinkable now.
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And this coolness often prevents our being carried away by a stream of eloquence, which the prejudiced mind terms declamation -- a pomp of words.
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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He's still asleep, I suppose, though he often wakes me with his morning declamations.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Excellent patterns, celestial exemplars, of the things required were held up to it; and endless declamation and argument why it should be that, and not the other, were not wanting: -- but as to any scientific inquiry into the nature of the thing on which this form was to be superinduced, as to any _scientific_ exhibition of the form itself which was to be superinduced, these so essential conditions of the proposed result, were in this case alike wanting.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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The most successful newspaper stories are often declamations of patriotism.
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We protested against the old manner of acting and against theatricality, against artificial pathos and declamation.
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Frazer writes, "Here is what the last scene in the film meant, he explained, his four - or five-word declamation a stark and numbing negation of the gentle, almost languid spirit of the film, which invites the audience to its own discovery.
Undefined
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Motivation - particularly of the antagonist, Von Doom - was likewise absent, or, where it was articulated, it was in an irritating expository declamation by one of the primary characters on behalf of another.
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Schnittke's through-composed style is at times powerfully direct, but sometimes too direct, the chorus's declamation dramatic yet detached and almost perfunctory.
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Musically it unfolds far too sedately, with vocal declamation over smoothly contoured orchestral ostinatos, pitched somewhere between recent Philip Glass and the John Adams of The Death of Klinghoffer, as the default musical idiom.
Two Boys - review
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In tracing the History of Pantomime it becomes a matter of considerable difficulty, and, as Baron, in his _Lettres sur la Danse_, observes that when the word Dancing occurs in an old author, that it should always be translated by "gesticulation," "declamation," or "Pantomime.
A History of Pantomime
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In style, Wert's hymns resemble his other alternatim settings for the basilica; their extreme simplicity, evidently designed to allow the texts to be clearly heard, is reminiscent, in their combination of careful declamation, attention to text and restrained counterpoint, of the hymns and the Preces speciales of Jacobus de Kerle.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Titchmarsh just isn't programmed for portentous, monumental declamation.
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Let every declamation turn upon the beauty of liberty and virtue, and the deformity, turpitude, and malignity of slavery and vice.
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The most successful newspaper stories are often declamations of patriotism.
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In the Pit's small space the loud and unrhythmic declamation was too loud and too clipped.