"As you can see, Ladies and Gentlemen, " said Boots, -on her lovely throat she does not wear the light collar of inflexible steel, that beautiful circlet proclamatory of absolute bondage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The question is how we can keep crashing about, proclamatory and crass, once we know that so much of the world grows silent in the face of our loutishness? ❋ Ricklibrarian (2007)
Ignoring it seems kind of rude, but mentioning it seems unnecessarily self-proclamatory. ❋ Theferrett (2004)
But his thoughts are interrupted by another loud proclamatory voice. ❋ Giles Waterfield (2004)
As I walked to and from Chick-fil-A today I came up with a way to explain it to people but I still don't quite feel like putting my feelings about it in here, because it feels too proclamatory. ❋ Anne-jumps (2002)
On the other hand, doubtless she was destined to soon receive those lovely adornments proclamatory of the uncompromising condition of Gorean bondage, those adornments which so enhance the beauty of a woman, those adornments significatory that all institutional niceties pertinent to her bondage have been properly and legally completed. ❋ Norman, John (1985)
He raves, is suspicious, is at war with all things and all men; rails at the social system, not from any broad sympathy with better things, but from a strident selfishness, rasping and self-proclamatory, lacking elevation, save as his love puts wings beneath him for a moment and lifts him, as eagles billow up their young; is weak, and tries to cover weakness up by ranting. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Now at last we see him transformed, shedding his Nutcracker surface like a husk, revealing the elegant princeling within, and he strikes again that proclamatory tendu-side gesture. ❋ By ALASTAIR MACAULAY (2010)
The singer's personality was better revealed in the same composer's "Le Temps de Lilas" and Georges '"Hymne au Soleil" was proclamatory in style. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I will try to write a non-proclamatory or at least partially non-promotional post later today. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But what she naturally desired was that there should be no more delay than was positively necessary for obtaining a new license — two or three days at longest; and in view of this celerity it was next to impossible to make due preparation for a wedding of ordinary publicity, performed in her own church, from her own house, with a feast and amusements for the villagers, a tea for the school children, a bonfire, and other of those proclamatory accessories which, by meeting wonder half-way, deprive it of much of its intensity. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But what she naturally desired was that there should be no more delay than was positively necessary for obtaining a new license -- two or three days at longest; and in view of this celerity it was next to impossible to make due preparation for a wedding of ordinary publicity, performed in her own church, from her own house, with a feast and amusements for the villagers, a tea for the school children, a bonfire, and other of those proclamatory accessories which, by meeting wonder half-way, deprive it of much of its intensity. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
363 An idiomatic phrase for a pæan or congratulatory or proclamatory speech. ❋ Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys (1909)
