Expressiveness

Usage examples of plangency.

Spanish, had a certain plangency, he thought, which Major Sharpe might find pleasing.

I was still brimming with plangency, chockful of feeling, when I arrived back at thehotel.

But there was something open-ended in its plangency, just as there had been something exclusive about the ideal order that the books had passively hinted at, the order of words.

Its voice was perfectly intelligible, but it had a noticeable plangency as though its vocal cords were metal.

The first faint strains of the ballroom music had returned on the night air, with a plangency made doubly melancholy in his mind by the sense of lost opportunity.

Hope was very much like the smell of ponds on Earth, with a few dissonant olfactory notesand more of another smell, brought from ahead of them on a faint breeze, a sort resinous plangency and dry dustiness: a smell of austerely dry places.

The sadness, the plangency of this remark was echoed in the music itself, the gawwali model of devotional rhythms and improvisations, over a thousand years old, growing louder now as the funeral cortege came down the avenue, which had been cleared of extraneous traffic and parked cars.

Virgilian figure, not Homeric, and has about it the uniquely Virgilian plangency.