The metal gave the blown notes a semi-sad plangency that was unique to this instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [beneath an opal moon]

"I tormented myself," he declares in a tone which, for sheer plangency, has not sounded since Whittaker Chambers sang among the pumpkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Oral Tradition] Reference

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 pleasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Honour]

The hallmark of those novelists who have tried to write about the attacks is a sort of austere plangency — or a quivering bathos — that has been in evidence almost from the moment the planes hit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racing Against Reality] Reference

In any event, the plangency of Will's story derives in an important respect from its restraint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star-Dust] Reference

In addition to the plangency of his chord combinations, as such, his polyphonic skill is responsible for much of the solidity of his fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward MacDowell] Reference

In the title role Micaela Carosi has the vocal plangency and big money notes (no surprise she sings the role at the Verona Arena) to dominate all the ensembles thrillingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

But, curiously, Maazel did not allow the glorious waltzes to stretch out in their languor or reach their full plangency -- instead going for relatively clipped endings and sudden dynamic changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

And meanwhile we cannot help reflecting that plangency doesn't prove anything in itself - that there were lots of plangent songs in the 1920s as well as in the 1930s, and in many a decade before that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

But although the hurt he had suffered, in his most susceptible feelings, gives eloquence and plangency to his divorce pamphlets, it was not merely to voice his sufferings that he wrote those pamphlets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

Beethoven which, for combined passion, dignity, breadth of style, weight of momentum, and irresistible plangency of emotion, is comparable to the four sonatas which have been considered here, I do not know of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward MacDowell] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward MacDowell] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre] Reference

If there is anything in the literature of the piano since the death of Beethoven which, for combined passion, dignity, breadth of style, weight of momentum, and irresistible plangency of emotion, is comparable to the four sonatas which have been considered here, I do not know of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward MacDowell]