Word: declaim
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...President, have been astounded at this turn of affairs, and have In a turn at denouncing the alumnus to his baleful influence. "It is the inmates who make all the trouble; They are to blame for such standards in the American college. Thus the professor and the college President declaim, the which standing cap in hand in various appeal to the alumni for endowment Such hypocrisy is treated by the as it deserves...
...John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their rhetoric ; and how, by a somewhat fatuous coincidence, he came at last to march with Greene's army through North Carolina. Mr. Boyd writes the language laboriously and without zest. He is not concerned with unities...
...least superficial respect; and he is forced by public opinion and by that of Dr. Brinton to use the arts and devices of public speaking. He introduces, classifies and perorates and cannot be tripped up at the right moment by any skeptical listener. Whereas a tutor cannot declaim to one man, and he can be heckled; and he does not start from the resources of his own mind, but from those of his pupil's, so that there is more possibility of intellectual contact than between a lecturer and his audience...
...rebuffed, he would declaim...
...accuse the creator of Portia, Lady Macbeth, and Rosalind of being hostile to "women's rights." Yet "The Taming of the Shrew" is a healthy antidote for the overdose of feminism we are getting today. It is somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...