If Barton declaimed on a subject or person, you knew it came from the heart.

FORBES: Remembering My Old Buddy, Barton Biggs

"An ailment for which nothing is done" declaimed the famed Edwin Smith surgical papyrus, a 1600 B.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In the early part of the 18th century actors stood still and declaimed.

ECONOMIST: Theatre history

An acquaintance recalled seeing him at a writers' conference which was attended by Allen Ginsberg, a self-publicising poet who declaimed his verse accompanied by an accordion he usually carried.

ECONOMIST: William Gaddis

Levine and Sheil make a plausibly edgy, cultured pair (his opening riffs on Philip Roth are as smart as they are crisply declaimed) whose bonds are facing their first serious strain, which is captured in understatedly contentious dialogue and nuanced glances.

NEWYORKER: Green