| 单词 | stridency |
| 例句 | In media photographs and video he appeared to me as an ambitious minority politician and what being one had always meant— the adjutant interest groups, the unwavering agenda, the stridency, the righteousness. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was either hard-driving and angry or, with my garden and messages about healthy eating, I was a disappointment to feminists, lacking a certain stridency. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It is not as though I had expected an apology from her, but the stridency of this reply did, I must say, take me aback a little. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s probably too much brass in Jonathan Tunick’s retooled orchestrations; flash and stridency often overwhelm the tenderness in the score. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z But rather than choose stridency and suppression as her show’s thematic thrust, Sherman-Palladino opts for a sincere form of big-city sass and striving. Review | Yes, she’s a little too on-the-nose, but ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ earns her title 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Lear isn’t surprised that a sense of outrage and disillusionment has taken over — a Bunker mentality fused with a Meathead stridency, everyone digitally shouting one another into oblivion. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z “You can post or ‘like’ an article without much thought or accountability and this exacerbates stridency and polarization.” Facebook’s Change of Face 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times in 1965, Howard Taubman concluded that while “not a great musical,” the show “has the courage to abjure garishness and stridency.” Encores! Season Will Feature Sondheim and '1776' 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z At times, his stridency suggested that he had steeled himself to controversy. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Studiously eschewing all vibrato, she often pushed her tone toward stridency, and there were minor problems with tuning. Bringing out the best in Bach 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Especially galling is the stridency espoused by random high school and college classmates whose opinions are no more informed than anyone else reading — thanks to social media — the same articles as everyone else. And Now, I Unfollow Thee 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But the sight of such stridency from Geraldo Rivera created a tizzy. The Reliable Volatility of Geraldo Rivera on Fox News 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Yorke starts off well, with an amusing scat solo in a nightclub number, but her stridency is unrelenting. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z It's when dealing with these later events that the choice of subject matter as well as the stridency of the writing becomes unhinged, fitting uneasily with the more balanced approach of the earlier chapters. A People's History of London by John Rees and Lindsey German – review 2012-06-22T21:55:20Z A little stridency in the sound goes with this vocal territory. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z From the get-go, Mildred craves men’s power: “I admired his stridency. I wanted to bake it, to eat it like a large meat loaf so that it would enter my bloodstream and become my own.” In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “Ultra Mono” mixes the stridency of Fugazi with blasts of the language of self-help as Talbot sings about faux patriotism disguised as nationalism, class inequality and sexism. Idles Are Throwing a Post-Punk Revolution, and Everyone’s Invited 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z If there is a stridency in what I say it is because I believe Nigeria is once again on the brink of a precipice. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z But in 1983, that was only one possible outcome, and Reaganesque stridency sounded quite different on the Soviet side of Berlin from the way it did to the American electorate. Review: ‘Deutschland 83’ Focuses on a Reluctant Cold War Spy 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Her concert offered resolve and compassion, not stridency. Music Review: Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institute’s Tunisia Festival 2013-05-23T21:52:42Z The stridency of the debate makes “Flee,” with its intimate tone and complex lead character, stand out all the more. A Refugee’s Harrowing Story, Finally Told Through Animation 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Sometimes the thrill is in hearing the band waver between melody and noise, such as on Lies Lies Lies, where goth roots ever so slightly peak through and Pizzaro's voice acquires a Siouxsie-ish stridency. New band of the day – No 1,284: Chains of Love 2012-06-08T08:00:03Z "I don't want it to be a trend, and I'm very suspicious of a movement that gets glommed on to in great stridency and rage and without nuance," Penn continued. Sean Penn: “The spirit of much of what has been the #MeToo movement is to divide men and women” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “I don’t want it to be a trend, and I’m very suspicious of a movement that gets glommed on to in great stridency and rage and without nuance,” he said. Sean Penn: 'salacious' #MeToo movement will 'divide men and women' 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z But while her singing was generally lovely, some vocal depth, or support, was missing, and there was a tinge of metallic stridency in the high notes. Review | Lost heroes return in two local concerts 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “If I had been a man, my stridency and my opinionated presence and voice would not have engendered the same kind of response,” Ms. Rosenberg said. The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The urgency of that belief gives rise to the novel’s most unsettling theme: the tension between complacency and stridency in the face of existential threats. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z They haven't lost all of the theatre, the bellowing stridency, all of the bark and lilt, the hermetic wit, it's not exactly an austere, patient sound. Paul Morley Showing Off ... Wild Beasts 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z “A widespread and punitive stridency descending on us from every quarter,” he said. Is Self-Censorship a Problem for Writers? 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “He rules without stridency or major government crises. Logic says that not much will change if he becomes prime minister, although it depends on how much pressure he is under from Vox.” Spain’s conservatives put trust in Feijoo, the boring guy who wins every election by a landslide 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Latinos have become more Republican in the past few years; one recent analysis of the Latino vote found that liberals’ stridency on Covid precautions and their lack of concern about border security have harmed Democrats. How Biden Thinks 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z They’re reminders of ingenuity and resilience, but also the stridency that grew from this country’s stubborn belief in individualism and personal freedom above all else. Perspective | Jill Biden’s inauguration dresses get their place in history 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Montana’s new right-wing stridency, together with the Covid-era surge in remote work and the popularity of “Yellowstone,” has encouraged the influx of new residents. How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The hammer attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband at their San Francisco home grew out of a culture that rewards stridency and provocation. Accused Pelosi attacker David DePape spread QAnon, other far-right, bigoted conspiracies 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z He added that increased Soviet stridency and aggressiveness suggested the behavior of “a wounded bear.” Opinion | Why China will become ever more dangerous as its baby bust worsens 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Dr. Michaels was a visible and polarizing figure in the climate change debate — partly because of his stridency and partly because, unlike many politicians and other policymakers, he had scientific credentials. Patrick J. Michaels, Vocal Outlier on Climate Change, Dies at 72 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z He criticized the stridency and “relentless freedom from doubt” in Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s ruling opinion. Opinion | Abortion deserves a sober debate. Instead, it gets a war of unreason. 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Back then — what seems like a century ago because it was pre-Trump politics — the Republican Party locally was trying a strategy of nominating moderate candidates who rejected the GOP’s national brand of right-wing stridency. The death of the moderate in WA politics 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Phil string section found a stridency the players don’t usually look for. Review: The hidden message for Ukraine in Mahler's Seventh Symphony 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Despite near-constant expressions of gratitude for Western aid, his public statements can occasionally veer into stridency, annoying the Biden administration on more than one occasion. Waging war, wielding words: Zelensky's speeches have made him a folk hero 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The band added stridency to the song’s inherent mystery, Greene illuminating it with a marathon soprano sax solo. Review | At the Kennedy Center, saxophonist Jimmy Greene’s quintet delivers exquisite and timeless jazz 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z In her final column, Ms. Belz, who was also an editor, wrote of her discomfort “with the strife and stridency that’s befallen American evangelicalism, and with some directions World News Group is charting.” His Reasons for Opposing Trump Were Biblical. Now a Top Christian Editor Is Out. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Older people were overwhelmed by the youthful revolution’s stridency and chaos, Al Aswany says, and were primed to believe propaganda that claimed the election held no promise of true democracy. How Egypt's leading novelist captured the Tahrir Square moment — and his warning for us 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z She has no doubt that her dominance on the court and her stridency off it worked hand in glove. Martina Navratilova Has Plenty to Say 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z Cheney’s stridency on same-sex marriage, while infuriating her sister, also marked a rare difference in views from their father, whose support for the rights of gay couples stretched back over a decade. Liz Cheney vs. MAGA 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Ultimately, populism’s success rests not on the stridency of its opposition to the technocratic elite but on the degree of its incorporation into it. Opinion | Trump Needed the ‘Boneheads’ More Than He Knew 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z In them, you discover a whole new language, one that pleases with its lack of stridency. Perspective | When the world gets too loud, it’s time to go fishing 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z “The stridency of the partisan attacks and the politicization of hydroxychloroquine has been amazing to me,” he said. William Barr: Media on ‘jihad’ to discredit hydroxychloroquine 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Beloved for his stridency of beliefs as well as his folksy, common-man approach, he seemed destined for the denomination’s pantheon of saints. 12 major religious newsmakers — and stories — from the past decade 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z An off-putting stridency mars most of the songs. ‘Frozen II’ review: Beloved characters are back to enchant young kids in Disney’s sequel 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The question facing voters in council district 3 this fall is whether they are weary of Sawant’s stridency or eager to let her carry on. Is Kshama Sawant a keeper or kaput? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Such stridency on a customs union amendment doesn't sit particularly well with the party's holding line: we will see what amendments are tabled. Brexit: Johnson to push for 'yes or no' vote on deal as Labour woos rebel Tories - live news 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z President Trump’s best chance for re-election lies in getting Democrats to approach complicated, tender issues with a tone-deaf, incoherent stridency that approaches his own. Opinion | Democrats Shouldn’t Be So Certain About Abortion 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z But he played down his national security advisor’s consistent stridency on Iran, saying he wanted to hear a variety of viewpoints. Trump says he’s open to Iran talks without preconditions 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Such stridency led to criticism that Lopez used immigrants to flout nonprofit law and further his political causes. Nativo Lopez, pioneering and polarizing Latino leader in Orange County, dies at 68 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z In a political climate where stridency is often rewarded and crudeness frequently seen as a marker of authenticity, she has clung to the belief that decency is what voters want most. In Slovakia, Unlikely Presidential Candidate Signals a Backlash Against Populism 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Democrats believe that they won the House last year partly because of President Trump’s stridency on immigration and aren’t about to accede to his wall demands. After a Shutdown Test of Wills Comes a Test of Governance 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Roth, for all her stridency, is a defender of decency and tolerance. How a German Teen’s Death Has Become a Political Weapon 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z But amid the Trump administration’s growing stridency on immigration, that may be changing. Is Denaturalization the Next Front in the Trump Administration’s War on Immigration? 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Actor Sean Penn says it’s time for the #MeToo movement to “slow down” and reject a population of activists who are attracted to “stridency and rage and without nuance.” Sean Penn: #MeToo activists often embrace ‘stridency and rage’ without ‘nuance’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The two-time Oscar winner says he’s “very suspicious of a movement that gets glommed onto in great stridency and rage and without nuance.” Sean Penn: Much of #MeToo movement divides men and women 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z This is a country that now signals its values to the rest of the world with the moral stridency of a burning cross. The US is no longer a safe country for refugees – and Canada is complicit 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Reduces a sense of responsibility to others when stridency about your rights is all you can shout about. Malcolm Gladwell Likes Things Better in Canada 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z That impression is only strengthened by the stridency with which senior Israeli officials defended the killings and even called for more. Opinion | Hamas has launched another war. Israel needs a better response. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z As comprehensive as it was, I found myself missing the stridency of early versions. Opinion | The Forgotten Anger of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z But the stridency of the NRA in condemning those candidates who even mildly disagree with it, brands it as a single issue organization. In Red-State Races, Democrats Seek an Edge by Defying the N.R.A. 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z “Newman was trying to galvanize the progressive vote in the district, and I think her judgment was that stridency was the way to affect that,” said David Axelrod, a Chicago-based strategist for Obama’s campaigns. A ‘tea party of the left’? Liberal activists learn tough lessons in quest to purify Democratic Party 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z The students' stridency, however disliked by their opponents, seems to have had an effect on Republican lawmakers. When it comes to guns, the Parkland shooting survivors aren't here to play nice 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z If Trump were ever inclined to indulge his liberal tendencies after winning the election, the stridency and spite of his opponents have provided him with no incentives to do so. Opinion | I wasn’t a Trump supporter. I am now. 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But this backdrop helps to explain Mr Zhou’s stridency: his rhetoric is sensibly countercyclical. Close to retiring, China’s central-bank chief warns of financial risk 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z There is considerable public disdain for the growing stridency of some pro-democracy campaigners. If you think protest is finished in Hong Kong, think again 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z A staggering 90% of women took part, after the genius move of renaming it, not a strike, but a “Women’s Day Off”, dressing up stridency as me-time. Sex bans, strength and solidarity: women’s strikes through the ages 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The students' stridency has added pressure on lawmakers and kept the shooting from fading from the headlines. When it comes to guns, the Parkland shooting survivors aren't here to play nice 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The narrator admires her stridency and pities her naïveté. Katie Kitamura’s War on Affect 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Charismatic authority revels in the glamour and irrationality of visual images, just as it revels in emotion, stridency, fear and loathing. The unholy power of that Farage-Trump buddy photo | Jonathan Jones 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Tea Party: A populist conservative movement known for its uncompromising stance on fiscal issues, its disdain for Mr Obama, and the stridency of its rhetoric. US election glossary: A-Z guide to political jargon - BBC News 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Eventually, under pressure from his own constituencies, Peña Nieto began to describe the real estate tycoon’s rhetoric as ominously similar to the populist stridency employed by Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Donald Trump arrives in Mexico to meet with country's president and try to demonstrate statesmanship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But within the context of the evening, his stridency was open to a reading of “a passionate nominee wanting to improve things.” How the Televised Convention Helped Trump Pivot 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z And the creators repeatedly overplay their hand, pushing so hard for specific emotions that the stridency becomes hilarious. Legend Of Tarzan: where romance-novel smut meets historical drama 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z With so much stridency and drama, it’s hard sometimes to remember what this election is about. America is under relentless attack — from within 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Maher's political ideology might be described as "progressive with a side of stridency," usually aimed at those he feels are not acknowledging the obvious. Bill Maher keeps on doing it his way 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Unstinting in his advocacy, Mr. Wu at times attracted controversy for the stridency of his campaign, which complicated tenuous U.S.-Chinese relations in the years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Harry Wu, dissident and activist who endured 19 years in Chinese labor camps, dies at 79 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z “Unless the ‘mainstream’ politicians offer more than platitudes, stridency in politics will only become more intense,” says Lukas. Views You Can Use: Bombings in Brussels 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The stridency of these assertions notwithstanding, they are, quite frankly, disingenuous. Viewpoint: India's tortured debate on nationalism and free speech - BBC News 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Beyond the record, Kasich stands out from this field for his absence of stridency. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z His stridency on immigration may also alienate more voters than it attracts. Cruz’s Immigration Misfire 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z With his stridency and his dogmatism, Justice Scalia was easy to hate which it easier for liberal critics to vent their frustration with the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts with equal stridency and dogmatism. Liberals might miss Justice Scalia more than they think 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The stridency of Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz hold little appeal to many of these Republicans. Seeking Strong Iowa Finish, Marco Rubio Targets Young Suburbanites 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z As his forces made advances last year, Mansour alternated between stridency and openness to peace talks. The new Taliban leader whose shadow hangs over Afghan peace talks 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z It isn’t just his barking-dog stridency but also his habit of calling respectable, hardworking people “losers.” Another Time, Another Trump 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Concerning religion, Dawkins has been accused of “stridency,” a quality some might consider unbefitting a scientist. Enough Richard Dawkins bashing: Let us praise a hero of science and atheism 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z “Our response must instead be one of hope and healing, of peace and justice,” he told Congress, asking lawmakers to summon the courage to resolve our complex issues without such stridency. Pope Francis teaches Congress how to disagree without demonizing, converse without condemning 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z But general election voters, selecting the person who will, nightly, be beamed into their homes for four years, prefer optimism to stridency. The Path to Political Salvation 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z He got into an explosive exchange with Rand Paul which was memorable but he has to be careful about alienating some younger libertarians who may abandon the party because of that stridency. Kasich, Bush and Christie Won the Debate 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But he combined that appeal with a renewed stridency. Tsipras Attacks Greece’s Creditors as Pressure Grows on Debts 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z In any case, “stridency” is just what we need these days, given the crises humanity faces and the role religion plays in retarding the search for solutions. Enough Richard Dawkins bashing: Let us praise a hero of science and atheism 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z This attitude is expressed as stridency, but it is really the fear of lost social position. The end of casual Christianity 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z There are times when our public discourse seems to have become one of hypersensitivity and discourtesy, ham-fistedly combined, of reaction, stridency and paranoia - a kind of expression of poor listening. Why do people dislike hearing foreign languages in the street? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Apolitical, eager to steer clear of the stridency that the Cuba debate generates here, they say their aim is simple: to help their families on the island. In Miami, Astonishment Over Action and Disagreement Over Cuba News 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z "But at what point does the stridency of the report affect policymaking, so that we take steps commensurate with the risks? Will it change the debate in Peru and in Paris?" Scientists sound the alarm in climate change report 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z The broad sweep of Mr Treu’s verdict, and the stridency of his language, means it will resonate well beyond California. Brown v Board, the sequel 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Though the field is crowded with colleagues and competitors — Mario Batali, for one, has taken on fracking as an issue — Mr. Colicchio’s advocacy work is arguably unmatched in both stridency and scope. Tom Colicchio, Citizen Chef 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But he eventually absorbed the message and toned down his stridency. Meg Whitman Jolts HP As Its Reluctant Savior 2013-05-22T11:51:29Z Her stridency, from her early days as “Thatcher the milk snatcher” to her defenestration by her own party, was divisive. Margaret Thatcher: Freedom fighter 2013-04-11T15:18:13Z Neither network has built its reputation on moderation and restraint, but during this presidential election, research shows that both are pushing their stridency to new levels. News Analysis: On Cable News Networks, a Battle of Bitterness 2012-11-05T21:34:33Z That stridency is surely on the minds of the scholars forming the Society for Qur’anic Studies, the first professional organization dedicated to critical exploration of the Koran. Beliefs: Battles Over What the Religious May Read 2012-06-09T01:32:22Z The reason, he posited, was the stridency and dominance of right-wing politics bolstered by the city’s insular business elite. Warren Leslie Dies at 84; Wrote Book That Rankled Dallas 2011-07-24T00:50:40Z This election was remarkable for the stridency of anti-government rhetoric both at opposition rallies and on the Internet. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew retires from government 2011-05-14T11:56:50Z My goal here, as is hopefully clear, is to try to move from stridency and name calling to rational discussions of reasonable approaches to smoothing the human journey. Dot Earth: Deconstructing a Bestiary of Malthusian 'Miserabilists' 2011-01-19T18:13:44Z Such stridency has put NBC News journalists who cover Republicans in awkward and compromised positions, several people who work for the network said. News Analysis: On Cable News Networks, a Battle of Bitterness 2012-11-05T21:34:33Z But the stridency of the Japanese intervention yesterday took folks by surprise. Dot Earth: The Ghost of Kyoto Visits Canc?n 2010-12-01T15:32:00Z She spoke of "enemies within" and adopted a rhetorical stridency that suggested she would not be content until all opposition was ground into dust. David Cameron's ambivalent relationship with the lady in blue 2010-10-09T23:09:00Z This common refrain is still chimed with certainty, and stridency, by average citizens, just as leaders of the party-state employ it when addressing foreigners. Strangers at Home 2010-07-16T23:30:00Z Indeed, there are indications that Merkel's stridency is simply a continuum of Germany's twin, post-war strategic imperatives of sound money and European integration. Brussels vs. Berlin: The Battle to Tame the Banks 2010-05-27T08:50:00Z 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. 2010-01-15T16:27:00Z I suppose the infernal regions alone could produce such sounds of soul-splitting stridency as those evolved by my next-door neighbour’s blowpipes when it got to that.” In the Whirl of the Rising What kind of mercy did you have on that Gilbert 395 merchant?” he cried, with a sudden stridency. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) It has a peculiar horselike stridency that makes me want to tear out his throat. Competition As a rule this subject moves the Dean to stridency; but the heavy magnificence of Castle Affey crushed him into a kind of whisper. The Red Hand of Ulster The howl continued at long intervals, and each time that the hoarse stridency pierced the silence Febrer thrilled with impatience and choler. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The loud stridency of Mr. Kipling's voice is perhaps "one of the penalties" which has to be paid for the democratic sentiment of fellowship. Personality in Literature At that Simon put on his hat and laughed with an eerie and unpleasant stridency. Doom Castle From the towers and walls of New York there fell a breath, a grandiloquent language, a stridency and a glory, that were Wagner's indeed. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers "You will?—you'll do that for me, Griswold?" he said, with a queer stridency in his voice that made the word-craftsman, always on the watch for apt similes, think of a choked chicken. The Price "If you please," said he, in a voice of tense stridency, "I will give you a few letters." Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Blatancy, stridency, false notes, and persistency after the coppers, have been its chief characteristics. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers The contempt of the second speaker was only surpassed by the stridency of his voice. Ralestone Luck He produced another five-franc piece and was pursued to the gate by the stridency of her gratitude. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories He moved on to the Praca, where the stridency of the music still persisted. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 But these non-stop stridencies of the modern ballroom, even if they left a man with breath enough to propose, would effectually prevent the girl from catching the drift of the avowal. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 She had an American accent, Californian maybe, a litigious stridency that tightened his sphincter like an alum enema and miraculously flensed him of the impulse to argue. Eastern Standard Tribe Through all this stridency and blaze of conflict, the old Vindictive, still unhurrying, was walking the lighted waters towards the entrance. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. Saloons and gambling-houses, which did business with such childlike candor and stridency, became offices for the sale and exchange of stock. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West A newsboy just under his window was calling the morning papers with monotonous stridency. Broken to the Plow The stridency of her behaviour in court had frightened him. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories He sang with the sharp stridency which is the rule in Italy—the words clear, the sounds nasal. Eleanor Many women-writers, though by no means all, have been cured of the habit of italicising, which was the outcome of a natural desire to atone for weakness by stridency. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide He opens his mouth to speak, but only a husky murmur replaces the harsh stridency of his usual utterance. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 As the doors swung to and fro, the stridency of whistles, the throbbing of motor-cars, and the hoarse cries of inhabitants of box seats mingled strangely with the delicate babble of the interior. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days Throughout these papers sounds a note, a distinctive and personal note, a note that tends at times towards stridency; and all that is not, as these words are, in Italics, is in one Voice. A Modern Utopia Voices and laughter came very softly to his ears above the distant stridency of traffic. Three Soldiers It was wonderful to think that in another half-hour she would see Miss Avies once more, hear those wild hymns again, catch the stridency of Thurston's voice; all these things spoke of Martin. The Captives |
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