Examples of plangency in a Sentence
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But psychological acuity alone does not account for the novel’s effect on the reader, which depends more profoundly on the curious plangency of its style.
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Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
The tenor William Burden was a winning Florestan, vividly projecting his character through singing of sweet-toned plangency.
—Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
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Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
The tenor William Burden was a winning Florestan, vividly projecting his character through singing of sweet-toned plangency.
—Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
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“Plangency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plangency. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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