stridency

But of late her voice has developed some stridency in its top range.

Then she began to talk slowly, but with rising stridency.

Yet the piece had a kind of stridency, and not only because it is about a woman cutting off a man's head.

In the middle of the stridency, ambivalence is hard, but not impossible, to come by.

These stories, told in plain fashion, show no signs of stridency.

We can take a good look at the Wheel,' she explained with embarrassing stridency.

The air did not seem intimidated by his stridency.

His stridency also reflected a new perspective on the importance of the whole conflict.

His voice tried for hard emphasis and overshot into stridency.

Marie reached for his face, her voice now soft once more, the sudden stridency gone.

Many factors are behind the decline in unions' strikes and stridency.

But other people can ask for money with more grace and less stridency than I can.

The woman's voice had risen to a strangled, desperate stridency.

But in more impassioned moments, she pushed her sound into stridency.

Her letters were of mounting stridency and, as I thought, extremely unfair.

The stridency of the metal backs up the music.

He heard the stridency in his own voice.

Was it low pressure stridency alone that gave his voice that edge?

It is impossible that politics will continue in this tone of stridency."

But there's no better excuse for stridency than genocide.

Partisans may claim their stridency arises from the importance of the issues.

But concern for the family, he cautioned, should be asserted with compassion, not stridency.

Stridency begins as a practical tool and ends up a virtue.

His voice was rising to a horrible pitch of impassioned stridency.

Helen heard the shrewishness in her voice but was unable to control its stridency.