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Definition of Stridencies
1. stridency [n] - See also: stridency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stridencies
Literary usage of Stridencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"... rising neither to the occasional heights of Marston nor falling into his
stridencies and incoherencies. His subject demanded melodrama and horror heaped ..."
2. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"Chettle is an easy and competent playwright, rising neither to the occasional
heights of Marston nor falling into his stridencies and incoherencies. ..."
3. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"In his succinct and quick- moving novel he has made the America of the small town
his own, its stridencies and heart-hungers and thin spiral fires. ..."
4. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"In his succinct and quick- moving novel he has made the America of the small town
his own, its stridencies and heart-hungers and thin spiral fires. ..."
5. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"In his succinct and quick- moving novel he has made the America of the small town
his own, its stridencies and heart-hungers and thin spiral fires. ..."
6. Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King (1900)
"... of the rhythmic waters, he was hailed by the buzz- saw stridencies of Miss
Perkins, whose first words gave the lie to themselves. ..."
7. Love and Letters by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1911)
"... and so many irritating qualities that, were a nerve removed from the healthiest
body and subjected to the pricking of its many stridencies, ..."
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