stridency

How To Use stridency In A Sentence

• Maybe it's her stridency, the unsmiling 'demandingness' she projects. [women over 43] andy mac dowell
• Silence!" called a stridency which all recognized as coming from Hundred. Explorations
• Yet I must confess to feeling a little jaded with the constant stridency and intellectual conceit of many of the contributions published, however much I agreed with the sentiment.
• Although she bridles at the stridency of the language, it's all or nothing for this group.
• But his stridency and his abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen.
• It surged through the mellifluous, Mozart-inflected string deluges of Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta," then picked along Stravinsky's cubist angularities, where flashes of stridency were momentarily backlit by lyricism. A Shining Study in Vision
• That accounted for its stridency and its determined effort to provoke alarm.
• Her stridency on this particular point suggests overcompensation: the professionalism she so decried in her public writings was perhaps so troubling because she was so implicated in it herself.
• His affability was a welcome change from the stridency of Eliot Spitzer, yet Paterson quickly proved an unreliable steward. NY Post: News
• But Kael also had little patience for stridency from the left. Daimnation!: In defence of Roger Ebert