Word: declaim
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...immigrant with a degree in English literature from Oregon's Reed College, first envisioned a neighborhood hangout for bohemian intellectuals-"the kind of place," as he wrote in his memoir, where "when the conversation soared and bristled with wit and good feeling, perhaps a resident poet would rise and declaim some verses...
though on "fairness" they declaim...
...triumph is to communicate this creepy excitement with urgency and great cinematic brio, while neither condescending to the girls nor apologizing for their sin. The film's serendipitous stroke was to find Winslet and, especially, Lynskey, a first-time actress. They are perfect, fearless in embodying teenage hysteria. They declaim their lines with an intensity that approaches ecstasy, as if reading aloud from Wuthering Heights. The giggles that punctuate the girls' early friendship are not beneath Winslet and Lynskey. The screams that end the film are not beyond them...
...regardless of dedication or caring--can be an effective teacher if he or she does not speak the language of instruction. For most courses, this is English. The objections of Dowling and Feldman would make sense only if the proficiency test requires TFs to compose extemporaneously and declaim Petrarchan sonnets...
...Wilson's most delicate and mature work, if not necessarily his most explosive or dramatic. It has none of the adrenal family confrontations of his two Pulitzer prizewinners, Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990). This one never telegraphs the moments when it is going to turn philosophical and declaim what it means. Although the subject is nothing less than the whole range of political, social and philosophical options by which black people have lived for the past couple of decades, the story remains, to all appearances, a glimpse of everyday existence circa 1969 in a run-down Pittsburgh luncheonette...