Declaiming

Word DECLAIMING
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Definitions and meanings of "Declaiming"

What do we mean by declaiming?

To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.

To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.

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The word "declaiming" in example sentences

Generally speaking, it's a Conservative call declaiming the dissolution of Christian values in mainstream discourse and governance. ❋ Rev. G. Jude Geiger (2012)

a great deal of crude thinking and declaiming which is in fashion. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

For "Revue" 2008, he turned to midcentury depictions of Soviet life in television shows, newsreels, propaganda movies and feature films—presenting an absurd and touching parade of distinct faces declaiming poetry, singing of the joys of rural life, and expressing determination to toil ever harder in fields and factories. ❋ Kristin M. Jones (2012)

They don't imitate Michael Caine so much as they become him in vocal modes that include purring, threatening and declaiming. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

So here's Elayna, declaiming the story of the Gaselli from Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales and singing "Taglio" with her favorite musician. ❋ S00j (2009)

What is so alarming about all this is that Labour has let in to this country all sorts of appalling people who end up declaiming real hatred and real threats to our people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I spent at least 80 percent of his speech with my glance averted, listening, as if at a radio and Daisey was declaiming somewhat like a disciple of the late, great Jean Shepherd. ❋ David Finkle (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two of the groups last heard declaiming about "net neutrality," Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation, recently wrote to the Federal Communications Commission demanding an investigation, saying data caps "carry the omnipresent temptation to act in anticompetitive and monopolistic ways." ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

Perhaps the most vital refinement that needs to be made is in the technical arena of vocal articulation and projection; in the first half-hour or so of the evening in the Lansburgh Theatre, many actors were swallowing words or, in some extreme cases, declaiming into the wings or the back of the stage. ❋ Peter Marks (2011)

It almost feels like a song cycle, with three men declaiming their part in the war and their love of the birds they care for -- one is the German Gunter (Ben Davis), one is the Brit Julian (Charlie Brady) and one is the New Yorker Sandy (David Perlman). ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

Remember that the 1930s included lots of mainstream media criticism (Westbrook Pegler for Scripps Howard for instance) consistently declaiming against FDR throughout the Depression. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the mannerisms in many cases can no doubt be viewed as over-compensation, the literary equivalent of a bad actor putting the ham into Hamlet, declaiming a soliloquy in the most "theatrical" way. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Sean shouts, before declaiming the sentence one more time. ❋ Tim Dowling (2010)

The class struggle is here, and the optimistic American had better gird himself for the fray and put a stop to it, rather than sit idly declaiming that what ought not to be is not, and never will be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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