stridency

But the stridency of these novels is not the most complex or surprising shift in contemporary recession literature.

Voices and laughter came very softly to his ears above the distant stridency of traffic.

Jesse's wretched gun slammed again, a different sound, a spattering clang, followed by the stridency of Jesse cursing and weeping.

As a rule this subject moves the Dean to stridency; but the heavy magnificence of Castle Affey crushed him into a kind of whisper.

Its stridency and the tang of fresh sawdust strike sharp across the air fragrant with fern.

Just as a mere bit of physical stimulus the crescendoish stridency of the speech roused Barton to a lazy smile.