plangency

Example Sentences

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His piano sound tends to the percussive, achieving a relatively thin but tactile plangency.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2016

In fact, her work — notwithstanding its overall plangency — could initially be mistaken for light verse.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2016

At 89, he retains the boyish spark in his tenor, and a remarkable degree of the plangency.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015

When Peter Frampton shows up with his Les Paul guitar on “Right Back Home,” his easy heat and plangency marks him as an alien life-form.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2012

From the wet pools began the cold and melancholy fluting of the frogs, the voice of solitude, and under the plangency of it she found the tears running down her cheeks.

From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir