Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being plangent; a noisy dashing or beating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
plangent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
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Examples
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"I tormented myself," he declares in a tone which, for sheer plangency, has not sounded since Whittaker Chambers sang among the pumpkins.
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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But, curiously, Maazel did not allow the glorious waltzes to stretch out in their languor or reach their full plangency -- instead going for relatively clipped endings and sudden dynamic changes.
Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras 2010
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Disclaimer: I Twitter -- "hanft" is my hugely clever and obfuscatory user name -- and those few loyalists who follow me hopefully are rewarded with more plangency than "Subway late again. Ugh."
Adam Hanft: Maureen Dowd, Please Stop Now. Twitter is Not Just For the Banal Retentive 2009
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Underneath the movie, which is set on the eve of World War I, there's an elegiac plangency that stays with you long after the shocks have worn off.
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Speaking without artifice and with a mellow charm, White also has a plangency that will make you weep, so don't listen (at least, not to the sad parts) while driving.
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The hallmark of those novelists who have tried to write about the attacks is a sort of austere plangency — or a quivering bathos — that has been in evidence almost from the moment the planes hit.
Racing Against Reality O'Hagan, Andrew 2007
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Montbrun hastened, with a courtier's smoothness, to recommend the red wine which, though Spanish, had a certain plangency, he thought, which Major Sharpe might find pleasing.
Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985
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The metal gave the blown notes a semi-sad plangency that was unique to this instrument.
beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980
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To the bizarre plangency of muted trumpets you copy out your cherished, your solitary "Z": Zazoulian, the little Armenian painter.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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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.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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