stridency in a sentence
Examples
- Indeed, Chancellor Helmut Kohl himself has, with increasing stridency, pushed this save-us-from-ourselves line.
- The hard-edged partisan bite that worked for Gingrich in the minority came across as stridency in power, Republicans said.
- In a speech earlier this year, the party's charismatic leader, Hassan Nasrallah, signaled both stridency and fatalism.
- The stridency of his anti-Habsburg politics led to his arrest by the Austrian authorities on charges of treason in 1915.
- Then, when her growing stridency began alienating voters, it turned away from her despite her years of success and installed Major.
- Both concertos demanded considerable virtuosity of the soloists, whose able and sometimes brilliant readings were tarnished slightly by passing touches of stridency.
- The whistle, and the frequency and stridency with which he blows it, is the key to the coach, he says.
- Today's hot directors come increasingly from commercials, and they've brought with them hucksterism's stridency and style.
- Several singers have suggested that Callas's heavy use of the chest voice led to stridency and unsteadiness with the high notes.
- With these new laws, the NRA began to argue with increasing stridency in fund-raising letters that gun rights were under siege.