What's the difference between declaimer and ranter?
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Definition:
(n.) One who declaims; an haranguer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Click to view The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes a surprise appearance on Beyoncé's latest album , released on iTunes this morning, declaiming: "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.
(2) He’s not just a straight-talker, he’s a man who reliably says the things politicians dream their opponents will be caught muttering within range of forgotten radio-mics – except he declaims them on a podium in front of thousands.
(3) The charge sheet was stunning: "He has corrupted his hands and sullied his government with bribes," declaimed Burke in his opening speech to the hearing.
(4) Favourite lines are a very personal affair, but members of my family are liable to declaim "I must have a charcoal biscuit, which is good for me", "Nothing grows in our garden, only washing", "Here's your arsenic, dear," or "Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?"
(5) 1976’s awesome Station to Station found him in Wagnerian mode, imperiously gazing over mountains and oceans, declaiming “the European canon is here” while “driving like a demon” between the stations (sephiroth) of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, “from Kether to Malkuth”.
(6) They get drunk, they go punting on the canals, they recite passages from Shakespeare, they declaim lines from Chaucer to dismayed cows, who wonder where all of this is leading.
(7) His letters and journals - many written with an eye towards publication - vividly conjure the life and times of an inimitable self-dramatiser ("Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other," he declaimed).
(8) When I Google the phrase I get Burberry's website, so I try 'British values' and the first entry is Tony Blair declaiming the 'core British values of fair play, creativity, tolerance and an outward-looking approach to the world'.
(9) Thomas stretches out his sentences into great, rolling, relentless waves, or crushes words together into compound coinages as the voices whisper and declaim: the play is bawdy, tragic, lyrical, sly, odd, familiar, broad and deep by turns.
(10) An MA graduate who can speak fluent English but who prefers to declaim in Gujarati or Hindi as he did in London last night, Mr Modi is technically savvy, and usually answers his own email.
(11) "It was the night before New Year's … " he declaims over an icy RZA production.
(12) Arena's main soliloquy is breathtaking: wearing a face-painted mask of kaleidoscopic colours and in drag (a red dress), his character declaims a kind of manifesto: "I wish to live in the drama of schism, of division … Live for a different idea, cultivate love for another possibility unforeseen, full of attraction and danger, necessary, inevitable, fatal... " Written by Punzo, made rhetorical by Arena, who speaks his lines with a mixture of mockery and defiance, across a range of facial expression that excites as much as it discomforts.
(13) So I wasn't surprised to read in Simon Callow's Charles Dickens and The Great Theatre of The World , that the author used to declaim passages aloud to his family after he'd written them.
(14) They will be playing to different galleries, declaiming their positions to their peers in the chamber, but also to domestic audiences.
(15) Thus declaimed Apple marketing boss "Big" Phil Schiller as he provided a rare sneak peak of a forthcoming Apple product: the new Mac Pro.
(16) On the higher end of the cultural scale, V declaims Shakespeare, and in honour of Guy Fawkes's subversion in the age of James I, reels off lots of Macbeth.
(17) • Readers who have found themselves persuaded this week by the measured insights of Ukip donor Demetri Marchessini, who purchased an ad in the Daily Telegraph to declaim on the subject of homosexuality ("there is no such word as 'homophobic', it cannot be found in any dictionary") are no doubt anxious to hear more from the Greek businessman and self-styled polemicist.
(18) I think, retrospectively, all this should have been declaimed in French.
(19) Oh you terrorists, you will be defeated, defeated, defeated!” the presenter declaimed.
(20) The introduction still packs an emotional punch as it declaims: “Those of us who lived those unique and unforgettable days, days destined to light up the history of the world, will never lose the memory of them.” Behind the counter, Carmen is the current custodian of those memories.
Ranter
Definition:
(n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
(n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
(n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) They seem to think in a toxic media market, dominated by professional ranters and by one player, News Corp, intent on using its market dominance to pursue bleedingly obvious political and commercial agendas – that the ABC is not only comprehensive and reliable, but essential.
(2) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(3) For Abbott, on the precipice of fulfilling his destiny in politics, it would have seemed like collegiality, not outright soul-selling, to become a man for Peta and for Brian down in party headquarters, a man for the colleagues, a man for the Liberal party base, a man for Rupert and for Alan Jones and for Ray Hadley (when Scott Morrison wasn’t available) – a man who would validate the various irrationalisms of the wireless ranters and the white male columnists in Rupert’s employ – young and older fogeys who cherish past certainties, and who feel just as ambivalent about the future as Abbott himself feels.
(4) It is a book fair in October with "all-day cabaret starring assorted ranters, poets, singers and comics; all-day film showings and two kids' spaces".
(5) MSNBC's resident ranter and news commentator Keith Olbermann – who once described a Republican senator as "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model" – tweeted his umbrage at Stewart's intimation that he is unhelpfully hyperbolic, possibly before smashing his Blackberry underfoot.
(6) The derogatory comedy of Bernard Manning and Benny Hill was elbowed off the airwaves by proudly anti-racist, anti-sexist comics of the younger generation: anti-Thatcher ranter Ben Elton; Alexei Sayle, who describes his younger self as "a fat man in a suit, shouting at people for not being political enough"; feminist comics French and Saunders, Emma Thompson and Jo Brand.
(7) This week he will be interviewed by the rightwing ranter, radio host Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh's TV equivalents, all three prime time hosts on Fox News, and play verbal softball with Oprah Winfrey.
(8) We were correct not to engage with the ranters on the right.
(9) More pub ranter than soundbite-spewing talking head.
(10) This has not been not a harmonious year, and male rage is definitely part of the landscape – the trolls, men’s rights movement misogynists, Gamergate ranters, and the perpetrators of the actual violence, which has not stopped.
(11) An intriguing snapshot of a hack's navel, it at least earned me the grand sobriquet "Ranter of the Guardian" in the Daily Mail (who know a thing or two about publishing ill-thought-through opinions themselves, after all), though the affair needn't be examined in any further detail here.
(12) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
(13) More than any other modern novelist, he has used fiction as confession and the displacement of confession: his ranters, complainers and alter egos, from Portnoy to Zuckerman to Mickey Sabbath all seem Rothian, even when they are only standing in for Roth.