All 4 Uses
clamor
in
Mrs. Warren's Profession
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- Here again the clamor for naturalness and human feeling, raised by so many critics when they are confronted by the real thing on the stage, is really a clamor for the most mechanical and superficial sort of logic.†
Act Auth *clamor = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- Here again the clamor for naturalness and human feeling, raised by so many critics when they are confronted by the real thing on the stage, is really a clamor for the most mechanical and superficial sort of logic.†
Act Auth
- It is edited by a gentleman who, having devoted his life to work of the Shaftesbury type, exposes social evils and clamors for their reform in every column except one; and that one is occupied by the declaration of the paper's kindly theatre critic, that the performance left him "wondering what useful purpose the play was intended to serve."†
Act Auth
- Really he is that obsolescent phenomenon the fool of the family dumped on the Church by his father the patron, clamorously asserting himself as father and clergyman without being able to command respect in either capacity.]†
Act 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)