declaimers

Jean – Jacques a declaimer; Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers.

Les Miserables 2008

It is often said that Voltaire's Romans are mere creatures of parade and declamation, like the figures of David's paintings, and it is very likely that the theatre infected the French people with that mischievous idea of the Romans, as a nation of declaimers about freedom and the death of tyrants.

Voltaire 2007

The declaimers we have mentioned would wish men to bury the riches that might be accumulated by the fortune of war, or by agriculture, commerce, and industry in general.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

All our declaimers exclaim against idolatry like little dogs, that yelp when they hear a great one bark.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Meet one or two malignant declaimers, and we are weary of life, and distrust the permanence of good institutions.

Uncollected Prose 2006

She had a permanent fixed smile and struck me as one of those conversational declaimers: people who make remarks that are in the general vicinity of the discussion but are not in direct response to any previous comments.

Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

You, my daughter, will not prove yourself one of those ineffectual declaimers, who can think vigorously, but cannot act so!

The Italian 2004

Some of these students would be chosen as commencement declaimers.

Writing in the Academy Erika Lindemann 2004

Perverse declaimers may plead in excuse, that the woman was allured by the beauty of the tree, and the man ensnared by the blandishments of Eve.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

Not even “loose and ignorant declaimers” had taken this ground; no, every criticism of the treaty had been in small points, not in total.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968