clangorous

Example Sentences

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From the overture onward, Aucoin demonstrated his keen ability to navigate between the emotional worlds of the opera, veering from haunting evocations of loss and mourning into vertiginous episodes and even a clangorous dance party.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021

But nothing too clangorous to tell you the truth.

From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2020

As for “Tux and Fanny,” its animation is far more imaginative and more inspired than the clangorous gyrations of last year’s Oscar winner, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”

From The New Yorker • May 28, 2019

Consider it another wake-up bell for an era already clangorous with them, a pointed reminder that in the sphere of social change, victory is never permanent because the forces of regress never rest.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2019

The air rang with the pounding of mighty hammers and the clangorous screech of iron on stone.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman