plangency
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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
He was at his most captivating in the aria “Wenn der Freude Tränen Fliessen,” which he endowed with expressive plangency.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 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
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 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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