(n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
(n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
(n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) It feels strange to sit down and begin writing a rebuttal to the declamation of a musician who I really admire.
(2) In addition, the declamations of great job growth this summer were largely delusional.
Philippic
Definition:
(n.) Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon.
(n.) Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(2) There are harsh lessons in football and we have learned some over the last week.” Two James Milner penalties and goals from the impressive Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho took Liverpool’s tally to 24 in eight games.
(3) The majority of the abuse sessions took place in the apartment of Franck and Patricia V, Philippe V's son and former daughter-in-law, with whom he was living.
(4) Since the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed in 1987 by Philippe Mouret in Lyon (France), there has been a real revolution in the field of visceral surgery: more and more operations are performed by this mini-invasive surgical method: lithiasis of the common bile duct, Nissen and Heller procedure, truncal vagotomies, abdominal and thoracic, supra-selective vagotomies, hernia, appendectomy, band sections during intestinal occlusion, resection of the colon and rectum, oesophagectomies ...
(5) Liverpool have 11 players injured, six with hamstring problems of varying degrees, after Philippe Coutinho and Dejan Lovren joined their list in the first half of Tuesday’s Capital One Cup semi-final win at Stoke City .
(6) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(7) If you look at teams around the league I bet you’ll find the number of injuries has definitely increased.” Liverpool’s walking wounded Philippe Coutinho Hamstring Dejan Lovren Hamstring Divock Origi Hamstring Daniel Sturridge Hamstring Martin Skrtel Hamstring Jordan Rossiter Hamstring Mamadou Sakho Knee Jordan Henderson Foot Joe Gomez Knee Danny Ings Knee
(8) Jürgen Klopp has held his first training session as the Liverpool manager , the German leading a group that featured nine first-team players including Philippe Coutinho, James Milner and Daniel Sturridge at the club’s Melwood base on Monday afternoon.
(9) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
(10) In the Guardian on Monday, Prof Philippe Sands QC and Dinah Rose QC condemn the plans for proposing an "unfairness far greater than the one it seeks to repair".
(11) Updated at 8.23pm BST 8.04pm BST Brazil v Germany - line-ups ... Brazil: 12-Julio Cesar; 6-Marcelo, 23-Maicon, 13-Dante, 4-David Luiz; 17-Luiz Gustavo, 5-Fernandinho, 20-Bernard, 11-Oscar, 7-Hulk; 9-Fred Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm; 20-Jerome Boateng; 5-Mats Hummels; 4-Benedikt Hoewedes; 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger; 6-Sami Khedira; 18-Toni Kroos; 8-Mesut Ozil; 13-Thomas Mueller, 11-Miroslav Klose Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Meet Marco Rodriguez, tonight's referee.
(12) Brazil midfielder Philippe Coutinho ‘happy at Liverpool’, insists agent Read more The pair, who joined Liverpool only in the summer following an overhaul of Brendan Rodgers’ backroom staff, have been informed they are not part of Klopp’s plans for his coaching team at Anfield.
(13) In a way Xiaobo chose his life and … has been living exactly as he thought he should,” said Jean-Philippe Béja, an academic and friend of 25 years.
(14) That’s one defeat in 10 and we are in decent shape.” Diego Costa on target as Chelsea beat Norwich to end disastrous run Read more Ronald Koeman felt his side should have had a second-half penalty when Philipp Wollscheid felled Graziano Pellè, but the referee, Lee Mason, saw nothing wrong.
(15) Balotelli was too isolated up front and Sterling and Philippe Coutinho were too little involved in the game.
(16) Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a barrister at Matrix Chambers
(17) Klopp’s men are now in a considerable position of strength before the second leg at Anfield on 26 January and the only downside is the sudden epidemic of hamstring injuries that has left them with a patched-up back four, Philippe Coutinho back on the treatment table and the makings of a defensive crisis.
(18) Sterling had been prominent in Liverpool’s opening goal and twice in injury-time he showed his pace on the counterattack to first help the substitute Philippe Coutinho make it 2-1 and then force the decisive own goal from Steven Caulker in the 95th minute.
(19) Liverpool lost Philippe Coutinho to illness at half-time and their concentration seconds after the restart.
(20) The one downside for Switzerland was the ankle injury that forced off Philippe Senderos inside the first half and may have ended his tournament if a scan shows that Fulham's recent signing from Arsenal has damaged ligaments.