stridency

How To Use stridency In A Sentence

• Critiques were voiced with stridency and utter conviction.
• This creates a certain tenor or stridency and also gets the book a certain labeling. Arbor Vitae Press Info?
• The artists are too discreet for political stridency; and in terms of carnal heat, Gilbert & George have been outdone, as critic Michael Corris has put it, "by domesticated Robert Mapplethorpe and [Jeff Koons and Cicciolina] doing the rumpy-pumpy in public. Keeping A Stiff Upper Lip
• The threat was surprising less for its stridency, which is not unusual in diatribes against the South and the United States, than for its timing. NYT > Home Page
• Given its stridency of tone, it would be disingenuous to claim that it merely represented a divergent view; it is anything but dispassionately presented.
• Rolling his gutteral Prussian R's with gusto, he sang in an indescribable blend of nasality and hypertensive stridency. Music of the Weimar Republic --
• However, The Christophers are not cited in the titles of the print I saw, and the film’s inane stridency is not in keeping with The Christophers output I know. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
• Common sense is still marginalized as "the left," counterweighted in the media by the intensifying stridency of the highly organized and well-financed Republican right. The Gitmo Distraction
• Her delivery, too, is eerily good – a show of demure solicitude, invariably overtaken by steely, wild-eyed stridency. The Iron Lady: first screening
• Any kind of edge or stridency is a no-no for shareability.