Usage examples (17)

• The metal gave the blown notes a semi-sad plangency that was unique to this instrument.
• "I tormented myself," he declares in a tone which, for sheer plangency, has not sounded since Whittaker Chambers sang among the pumpkins.
• Speaking without artifice and with a mellow charm, White also has a plangency that will make you weep, so don't listen (at least, not to the sad parts) while driving.
• Montbrun hastened, with a courtier's smoothness, to recommend the red wine which, though Spanish, had a certain plangency, he thought, which Major Sharpe might find...