plangency

• The tonal plangency, the epic quality, of these studies is extraordinary,—exposing a tendency toward an orchestral fulness and breadth of style that will offer a more pertinent theme for comment in a consideration of the sonatas. —  Edward MacDowell
• The tonal plangency, the epic quality, of these studies is extraordinary,--exposing a tendency toward an orchestral fulness and breadth of style that will offer a more pertinent theme for comment in a consideration of the sonatas. —  Edward MacDowell
• 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 She could hear from the laundry the resumed thrubbing and even smell the hot suds. —  Star-Dust
• Rousseau to a page of Robespierre, we feel that the disciple has none of the thrilling sonorousness of the master; the glow and the ardour have become metallic; the long-drawn plangency is parodied by shrill notes of splenetic complaint. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre
• Wilhelm's words, in high clangorous metallic plangency, and the pathos of a lion raised by anger into song, fall hotter and hotter; —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05

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