How to Use stridency in a Sentence

stridency

noun
  • Nomkhitha’s stridency drove Joseph mad.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Early reviews have praised its warmth, realism and lack of stridency.
    — Richard Turner, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2017
  • My political morals haven't loosened, but my need for stridency has.
    — Sally Kohn, Esquire, 24 June 2016
  • In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In that new, harsh light, The Ranch’s cis-white-male orthodoxy—and its stridency about that—has a nasty tang.
    — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 21 June 2017
  • One filmmaker who did mention AI did so with stridency.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That includes less stridency and more common-sense policies and solutions.
    — Gabriel Debenedetti, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018
  • Some of these reactions were amplified because of the unique stresses of the early pandemic, but that alone cannot explain their stridency.
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Words and images appear in her compositions with increasing stridency.
    — James Panero, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2018
  • Federici’s position on reproductive labour has long since evolved from her Wages for Housework–era stridency.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There is considerable public disdain for the growing stridency of some pro-democracy campaigners.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Her stridency in obstructing the investigation has been jarring.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 July 2017
  • Sarah doesn’t consider that an improvement, preferring the purity of her (and Tina’s) suggestion over the stridency of the new slogan.
    — Washington Post, 3 July 2021
  • The secret to her impressions was stridency, achieved by amplifying voices and characters almost to the point of absurdity.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Counter-Reformation stridency never really took hold in New Spain.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • The doctor's arrogance and naivete, his stridency and inability to maintain a tactical silence guarantee that his causes will forever be lost.
    — Chicago Reader, 5 Apr. 2018
  • But such readings can hardly account for the urgency, and occasional stridency, of le Carré’s post-Cold War novels.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
  • DeCruz, too, was struck by the way Oliver and Jackson talked to people who were on the fence about the vaccine, an issue more often discussed with stridency of various types.
    — Jeremy S. Levine, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In a business that sometimes places too much value on volume and stridency, Enberg embodied the understated perspective of a gentleman expert who knew there was always more to know.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Still, his consistency, stridency and level-headedness in advocating for his country have turned him into one of the most recognizable pro-Israel activists on the planet.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Older people were overwhelmed by the youthful revolution’s stridency and chaos, Al Aswany says, and were primed to believe propaganda that claimed the election held no promise of true democracy.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Yet Democrats also could blow the opportunity, with a combination of policy extremism and internal stridency.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Work on the new relief package was hampered by the stridency of the election campaign, fraught relations among congressional leaders and the absence of the president from negotiations -- particularly in the critical final weeks.
    — Mike Dorning, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Refreshingly, though, the film conjures a vivid sense of injustice — of lives thrown cruelly off course by forces beyond individual control — without slipping into Ken Loach-style stridency or didacticism.
    — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Despite near-constant expressions of gratitude for Western aid, his public statements can occasionally veer into stridency, annoying the Biden administration on more than one occasion.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Cohen’s stridency occurs in a discussion of the Court’s 2012 decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
    — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2020
  • This ideological stridency and triumphalist attitude can be powerful weapons against political opponents but are alienating—perhaps deliberately so—to moderates and conservatives.
    — WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • In contrast, some issues, like transgender issues, anything relating to immigration, particularly undocumented aliens, or climate change, are covered with a one-sided stridency characteristic of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
    — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 7 May 2017

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