plangency
Example Sentences
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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
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
Her voice had a pleasant plangency, a quality of more yet to come and as if the wells of her vitality were far from drained.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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