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declaim [dıˈkleım] VB intr, trans

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Usage examples with declaim

declaim against the government's new law
抨击政府的新法令

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She became more and more restricted to simple sentimental ballads, especially those with semi-religious or moralising words, which she declaimed with perfect distinctness and intense fervour.
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The elf maidens are paraded as potential brides, declaiming their most notable talents.
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An agitator like his father, he used language in the manner of a speaker declaiming forcefully from a platform.
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He discovered that a poet could achieve a deeper poetic effect by not shouting or declaiming, or repeating himself, by avoiding bombast and grandiloquence.
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Many of his characters sing songs and ditties ("filastrocche"), or declaim verses to a musical accompaniment.
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The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the language is often rhetoricalwritten for actors to declaim rather than speak.
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In certain trams, to the great joy but also concern of the passengers, bemused readers loudly declaimed extracts from the paper.
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This scheme is frequently used for declaiming other texts which use an "ottava rima" meter.
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The majority of the lyrics are declaimed rather than sung, over a repetitive electric guitar motif.
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The chorus generally sings wordlessly, only occasionally declaiming portions of the text to echo the speaker.
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