He selected Hamlet as the medium for exhibiting his voice, on this occasion; and he declared, as the principal motive for taking his elocutionary exercise, that the object he especially had in view was the benefit of poor Me!
Madame Pratolungo begins to feel the elocutionary exposition of Shakespeare, where she always feels it, in her legs.
It gives scope either to mere elocutionary art or melodramatic invention,--not to the universal and existing passions.
The latter is common to both verse and prose, and is emotional or elocutionary in origin; "If.
These indications, moreover, cover normal utterance only; in emotional language or elocutionary delivery there are deliberate and arbitrary lengthenings and shortenings.
As he stood in that elocutionary attitude this is just the way that speech went, this is it precisely.
Yet this class had an elocutionary manual before them that gave an appropriate gesture for every occasion, from paying the gas bill to death-bed farewells.
To hear him makes one grieve that such elocutionary powers as he manifestly possesses are not confined altogether to the illustration of those great verities of the Gospel upon which he often descants with feeling and power.
It is curious to observe, on turning over the leaves of the marked copy of this Reading, the sententious little marginal notes for his own guidance, jotted down by the hand of this wonderful master of elocutionary effect.
When he opened his lips, he spoke in a rich bass voice, with an easy flow of language, and a strict attention to theelocutionary claims of words in more than one syllable.
Here Captain Wragge entered on his personal statement; taking his customary vocal exercise through the longest words of the English language, with the highest elocutionary relish.
By William Russell, Author of theElocutionary Reader, &c.
Not being subjected to the distraction of a beauty parlor, Kate forgot to use her carefully modulated, elocutionary voice, and buzzed with details.
We were speaking of Sappho," observed Crane, again gliding into an elocutionary mood.
To appreciate the significance of elocutionary art, we have but to consider that all poetry and rhetoric need interpretation.
As far as contemporary memoirs elucidate the subject, it is evident that gross violations of elocutionary taste were habitual both prior to and succeeding the time of Betterton.
Although speech departments grew out of elocutionary studies, elocution disappeared from the curriculum because of an association with an excessive emphasis upon performance as performance.
A leading theorist of the elocutionary movement, his pronouncing dictionary ranks after the works of Dr.
At the same time, he presents the basic principles of elocutionary theory and reveals the forces that made the movement a dominant pattern in English rhetoric.
This lecture, "Being Introductory to His Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language," displays both the man and the elocutionary movement.
Reaction was compounded by a sophistication in psychology that made early theory seem naive, but neither later excesses nor seeming naivety should be permitted to distort the main thrust of the elocutionary movement.
The stage provided a practical outlet, but Sheridan's fascination with elocutionary theory dominated and deflected the interest in theatre.
The methodology of science was indirectly responsible for giving added support to this facet of elocutionary rationale.
Either your Alma Mater is weak along lines of elocutionary training or you do it so little credit you never earned your diploma.
Any other conception of the passage, any conscious endeavour to win a round of applause by elocutionary display, would disable the actor from doing justice to the great and sadly stirring utterance.
Such elements lay there behind a substantial barrier of conventional stage machinery and elocutionary scaffolding.
But speaking from memory requires the most minute and careful study, as well as high elocutionary ability, to guard the speaker against a merely mechanical utterance.
The student must ever bear in mind that there is no royal road of attaining excellence in Elocutionary art without labour.
To one who has truly appreciated it, there is nothing more dreary than the usual elocutionary rendering of a poem.
No year of college life should pass without contributing materially towards the elocutionary equipment of the future preacher.
Though elocutionary powers are of so much importance as to be almost indispensable, yet they are subordinate to the sermon: they are the aids and auxiliaries to drive it home.
Do not imagine for a moment that I advocate the neglect of elocutionary graces.
For the first year bend all your powers to capturing the intellects of your auditors, holding in reserve, for the time being, the elocutionary forces.
But he saw his profit in retaining the chorus, since this could be made to serve as the appropriate mouthpiece for the elaborate passages of elocutionary splendor in which he delighted.
An Italian in shirt-sleeves in the wings at the side of the stage speaks their lines for them, with all the elocutionary flourishes which he can command.
It has only been a few years since all these elocutionary schools changed their names to "schools of oratory" and consequently damaged the prospect of our country.
In accordance with this theory, they have formed complex systems of elocutionary rules, for the guidance of pupils in reading aloud and in declamation.
So important was this element of elocutionary training considered by the Athenians, that they had a class of teachers who were wholly devoted to it as a specialty.
And it is a fact worthy of observation that those who are most sceptical as to the possibilities of elocutionary culture, are invariably those who are themselves unskillful teachers in this branch.
Elocutionary exercises, especially that of declamation, thus practised with a due regard to the function of breathing, become highly beneficial in a hygienic point of view, imparting health and vigor to the whole physical system.
For want of culture in the elocutionary art, many teachers are greatly deceived, thinking their pupils read and declaim well when they do not.
This department comprises every variety of style necessary in elocutionary culture.
It is therefore of paramount importance that elocutionary culture should be based on the mechanical function of respiration.
It is naturally rolling and high-sounding, or at least may easily be made so, and therefore is apt to be in favour with geniuses of a swelling, oratorical, and elocutionary order.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elocutionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
