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plangency

NOUN
  1. having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

How To Use plangency In A Sentence

  • The deep breaths exhaled by his broad lines, his declarative sentences and their assertive plangency, his deliberate tactlessness and brave humor, redirect the reader to a history of poetic Yanks: Whitman, Williams.
  • But, curiously, Maazel did not allow the glorious waltzes to stretch out in their languor or reach their full plangency -- instead going for relatively clipped endings and sudden dynamic changes. Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
  • Montbrun hastened, with a courtier's smoothness, to recommend the red wine which, though Spanish, had a certain plangency, he thought, which Major Sharpe might find pleasing. Sharpe's Honour
  • The hallmark of those novelists who have tried to write about the attacks is a sort of austere plangency — or a quivering bathos — that has been in evidence almost from the moment the planes hit. Racing Against Reality
  • Her subjects may revolve around love, loss, and guilt but poignancy rarely tips over into plangency.
  • His Orestes is a confused, grandstanding jock, intoning his lines with stentorian plangency.
  • Theatricality rather than reality is the keynote of his production, a point symbolised by the constant background music of Latenas Faustas, which varies from fairground jauntiness to pianistic plangency.
  • The metal gave the blown notes a semi-sad plangency that was unique to this instrument. Beneath an opal moon
  • Underneath the movie, which is set on the eve of World War I, there's an elegiac plangency that stays with you long after the shocks have worn off. The Return Of A Bloody Great Classic
  • Disclaimer: I Twitter -- "hanft" is my hugely clever and obfuscatory user name -- and those few loyalists who follow me hopefully are rewarded with more plangency than "Subway late again. Ugh. Adam Hanft: Maureen Dowd, Please Stop Now. Twitter is Not Just For the Banal Retentive
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