stridency's Usage Examples:

sound elements, samba-jazz has many elements present in improvising and stridency.

And there is no necessary correlation between loudness and stridency and merit.

The band's stridency earned them a spot with Fishbone and Faith No More during their tours.

The stridency of his anti-Habsburg politics led to his arrest by the Austrian authorities.

According to Francis Morrone, "Something, perhaps the busy-ness or a greater stridency in the machicolations, makes this armory seem more forbidding than the.

subtlety of the ballroom scenes in Rigoletto and Un ballo in maschera to the stridency of the auto-da-fé scene of Don Carlos.

as the magazine, with persistent rise in visits thanks to freshness, stridency and originality.

Baez also sets aside some of her occasional stridency here, in favor of a more relaxed performance that shows her in the most.

"Larry Peerce, who directed Love Child, tries for as much prison-movie stridency as the material will bear, but his portrait of Terry is so mild that the.

not, these Minneapolis ragecore queens have toned down their maximum-stridency shtick a tad, delivering an album that at times actually skirts power.

(/s/, /z/, /ʃ/) with noticeable assibilation, sibilation, hissing, or stridency.

Hitchens's stridency and certainty will always be politically potent, but Amis's willingness.

critical of Tolstoy's follow-up books, arguing that their increasing stridency and tendency to twist the evidence to fit a preconceived theory effectively.

He is well known for the controversial stridency with which he attacks directors such as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma.

accumulated much political capital among Salvadorans for his anti-leftist stridency and for his reputation as an effective counter-insurgency strategist.

When Club—an appearance memorable for both its musicality and social stridency.

Synonyms:

tone; timber; timbre; quality; stridence; shrillness;

Antonyms:

popularity; unfaithfulness; unpleasantness; rightness; uninterestingness;