a strong statement or an occasion when you express something with a lot of feeling

He subjected us to half an hour of impassioned declamation against the new airport runway. 他硬是把他那番长达半小时的反对修建新高速公路的激昂演说强加给了我们。

Declamations against the press are common enough. 反对新闻媒体的言论很普遍。