astringency
- n a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker
- n the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids
- Kinsley is correct to say we need leaders brave enough to practice astringency, telling people what they don't want to hear.
- The songs, mostly written and produced with the formidable David Ricketts, soar and surprise; the lyrics have a spare astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell .
- In the chronology of the English comedy of manners, Anglo-Irish Dion Boucicault flounders between the astringency of Sheridan and the epigrams of Wilde.