How To Use Plangency In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Her subjects may revolve around love, loss, and guilt but poignancy rarely tips over into plangency.
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His Orestes is a confused, grandstanding jock, intoning his lines with stentorian plangency.
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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.
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The metal gave the blown notes a semi-sad plangency that was unique to this instrument.
Beneath an opal moon
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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
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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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I tormented myself," he declares in a tone which, for sheer plangency, has not sounded since Whittaker Chambers sang among the pumpkins.
R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
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To the bizarre plangency of muted trumpets you copy out your cherished, your solitary "Z": Zazoulian, the little Armenian painter.
Try Anything Twice
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Her voice had a pleasant plangency, a quality of more yet to come and as if the wells of her vitality were far from drained.
Star-Dust
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Speaking without artifice and with a mellow charm, White also has a plangency that will make you weep, so don't listen (at least, not to the sad parts) while driving.
The New Oral Tradition
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She had a slight catch, a touch of sympathy-arousing plangency, in her voice, and a vulnerable presence that cried out for protection; Birdsong sounds like a typical lounge singer, and comes across as a bit of a bruiser to boot.
