But a reminder about stridency is never out of place. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » District Attorney Suggests That It May Be a Crime for Teachers to Follow the New State Law Mandating Certain Forms of Sex Education] Reference
But Kael also had little patience for stridency from the left. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: In defence of Roger Ebert] Reference
"Silence!" called a stridency which all recognized as coming from Hundred. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Ann Coulter's column this month, explaining that her 'stridency' had crossed the line. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Morris Comm. in Augusta GA pulls Ann Coulter's column] Reference
Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Ann Coulter\'s column this month, explaining that her "stridency" had crossed the line. '. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Morris Comm. in Augusta GA pulls Ann Coulter's column] Reference
He sang with the sharp stridency which is the rule in Italy -- the words clear, the sounds nasal. From Wordnik.com. [Eleanor] Reference
The voice rose to hideous vowel-strangled stridency. From Wordnik.com. [Disordered Minds]
It's a tale of political stridency, but not strident. From Wordnik.com. [With a Name Like Daschle] Reference
The grating stridency of a car factory turned up full. From Wordnik.com. [Now] Reference
Or do you see some stridency which causes you concern?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2001] Reference
The stridency factor has always militated against women. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2004] Reference
Al Gore got a lot of flak for his tendency to edge over into stridency. From Wordnik.com. [Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.] Reference
And they're doing it with ever-increasing stridency, so far as I can see. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2007] Reference
Even that had a stridency which celebrated the stubbornness of the inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
At that Simon put on his hat and laughed with an eerie and unpleasant stridency. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
There's been a stridency and an authoritarianism, and I think a lot of sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Giuliani Says No Go to New York Senate Bid - May 19, 2000] Reference
The contempt of the second speaker was only surpassed by the stridency of his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck] Reference
Something in her voice-a stridency I'd never heard beforemade me stand there and wait. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Moreover, GOP stridency on illegal immigration has made the party appear anti-Hispanic. From Wordnik.com. [Power In The Pews] Reference
Death had taken the gentle ones; and the new stridency, of those who were left, hurt me. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
A bit more prosperity won't automatically soothe the growing stridency of public discourse. From Wordnik.com. [This Economy Won't Walk] Reference
They're helping the conservative cause with their stridency, mean spiritedness and extremism. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2002] Reference
Mr. Karlen's self-hating stridency has taken his old colleagues at Rolling Stone by surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Ex- Rolling Stone Writer Neal Karlen Gets Revenge on Jann Wenner] Reference
The new divide was thrown into high relief last week, if only by the stridency of the rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [A Pyrrhic Victory?] Reference
But a shrill scream stayed his hand ... who screamed? who screamed? ... and with such stridency. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Combine alleged stupidity with obvious stridency and she seems to Democrats eminently dismissible. From Wordnik.com. [William Astore: Pallin' Around With Palin] Reference
When Bork finally testified at confirmation hearings in September, his smug stridency sealed his fate. From Wordnik.com. [Liberals And The Lessons Of Bork] Reference
And then, a bit sheepish for the stridency of his voice, he said, "" Well, someone's got to be Fred. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Finish Line] Reference
Perhaps it is the perpetual sense of danger which makes the people so hushed, without clamour or stridency. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
His modest presentation of evidence contrasts, I am sorry to say, with the rhetorical stridency of Richard Dawkins. From Wordnik.com. [Natural selection: give me Darwin over Dawkins any day] Reference
Q-- my question is how he views the resistance in Israel, the stridency of some Israelis to relinquishing the Golan. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
It's my contention that fundie religious observance and stridency are a brake on natural human progress and diversity. From Wordnik.com. [It's the Supreme Court, Stupid!] Reference
The Beatles also surprised everyone with their lack of stridency, or lack of commitment, depending on the point of view. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
Furthermore, he blames Chen's stridency -- not Beijing's military buildup -- for the deteriorating cross-strait relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping China Quiet] Reference
Forbes is actually more popular with Perotians than Buchanan, whose stridency on abortion and immigration scares many of them. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting The Angry Voter] Reference
The stridency here is in the eye of the beholder. they optically reshot her footage to make her look menacing and suthoritarian. From Wordnik.com. [Now An Anti-Obama Version Of 1984-Video Makes The Rounds] Reference
It shows, yet again, why he's great - his intelligence, his decency, his lack of stridency, his ability to see issues from different sides. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
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