plangency

Example Sentences

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The soft passages have fairy-tale delicacy; his outpourings, a robust plangency reminiscent of his more extroverted roles.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023

He sings with huskiness and nimbleness, plangency and viscosity — sometimes all of these at once.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

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

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