How to Use stridency in a Sentence

stridency

noun

• In that new, harsh light, The Ranch’s cis-white-male orthodoxy—and its stridency about that—has a nasty tang.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 21 June 2017
• The narrator admires her stridency and pities her naïveté.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• Early reviews have praised its warmth, realism and lack of stridency.
  — Richard Turner, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2017
• DeCruz, too, was struck by the way Oliver and Jackson talked to people who were on the fence about the vaccine, an issue more often discussed with stridency of various types.
  — Jeremy S. Levine, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• My political morals haven't loosened, but my need for stridency has.
  — Sally Kohn, Esquire, 24 June 2016
• Some of these reactions were amplified because of the unique stresses of the early pandemic, but that alone cannot explain their stridency.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Sarah doesn’t consider that an improvement, preferring the purity of her (and Tina’s) suggestion over the stridency of the new slogan.
  — Washington Post, 3 July 2021
• That includes less stridency and more common-sense policies and solutions.
  — Gabriel Debenedetti, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018
• Older people were overwhelmed by the youthful revolution’s stridency and chaos, Al Aswany says, and were primed to believe propaganda that claimed the election held no promise of true democracy.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• If Trump were ever inclined to indulge his liberal tendencies after winning the election, the stridency and spite of his opponents have provided him with no incentives to do so.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2018
• In a business that sometimes places too much value on volume and stridency, Enberg embodied the understated perspective of a gentleman expert who knew there was always more to know.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2017
• This stridency reflects the national mood toward fentanyl.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
• Counter-Reformation stridency never really took hold in New Spain.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• The sound mix during their turn onstage amplified their weathered voices into stridency, but nevertheless their joy was contagious and their harmonies as stirring as ever.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
• The doctor's arrogance and naivete, his stridency and inability to maintain a tactical silence guarantee that his causes will forever be lost.
  — Chicago Reader, 5 Apr. 2018
• There is considerable public disdain for the growing stridency of some pro-democracy campaigners.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• Words and images appear in her compositions with increasing stridency.
  — James Panero, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2018
• Cohen’s stridency occurs in a discussion of the Court’s 2012 decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
  — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2020
• Her stridency in obstructing the investigation has been jarring.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 July 2017
• Work on the new relief package was hampered by the stridency of the election campaign, fraught relations among congressional leaders and the absence of the president from negotiations -- particularly in the critical final weeks.
  — Mike Dorning, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Refreshingly, though, the film conjures a vivid sense of injustice — of lives thrown cruelly off course by forces beyond individual control — without slipping into Ken Loach-style stridency or didacticism.
  — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
• Yet Democrats also could blow the opportunity, with a combination of policy extremism and internal stridency.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
• Despite near-constant expressions of gratitude for Western aid, his public statements can occasionally veer into stridency, annoying the Biden administration on more than one occasion.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• In contrast, some issues, like transgender issues, anything relating to immigration, particularly undocumented aliens, or climate change, are covered with a one-sided stridency characteristic of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 7 May 2017
• This ideological stridency and triumphalist attitude can be powerful weapons against political opponents but are alienating—perhaps deliberately so—to moderates and conservatives.
  — WSJ, 21 June 2019

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024