stridency
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Composer Einem's six-act opera was full of clashing, dissonant stridencies, which reflected his devotion to Hindemith, Stravinsky and Mussorgsky, and perhaps his admiration of Duke Ellington.
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They do not belong to the period the less by being in reaction against its stridencies.
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But now, after the fractured space of Cezanne, the shivering stridencies of Klimt and Kokoschka, the old Greek is not as much of a challenge anymore.
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But these non-stop stridencies of the modern ballroom, even if they left a man with breath enough to propose, would effectually prevent the girl from catching the drift of the avowal.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
