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  • n  the quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses
    the shrillness of her hair color
  • n  having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound

  • Only their sparkle and the shrillness of his voice indicate his psychic tension.
  • The Reds complained with almost unprecedented shrillness.
  • What he's sneaking out of the house in search of is quiet male bonding evenings with the guys that lack the shrillness of his wife's (and kids) restlessness.
News & Articles

  • Lansing Mitten Mavens host roller derby bout
    As the girls circled, the commentator’s mid-ranged drone echoed across the track, his words impossible to decipher from the near-hysterical screams of derby-girls melding with the referee’s periodic whistles. At times, the girls’ voices take on an almost religious, speaking-in-tongues-type fervor; the shrillness piercing fans’ ears with the fury and energy of the Almighty Himself.
    Nov. 11, 2013 - The State News
Quotes

  • Whittaker Chambers in National Review Online (blog)
    The most striking feature of the book, Chambers said, was its "dictatorial tone . . . Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal . . . From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity,...
  • Chris Dodd in CNN
    Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut said the first thing he'd try to change is the "discourse, the shrillness of the discussion in this country."
  • Arun Jaitley in Outlook
    Senior leader Arun Jaitley wrote in an article analysing the verdict: "Sober governance helps, shrillness does not. Moderation and understatement are virtues."

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