stridence
- n having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
- His rhetoric took on a new stridence, a tendency toward verbal overkill that was at odds with the image of plain-spoken reason he had earlier cultivated.
- The years seemed to diminish the excessesautobiographical discursions, adolescent stridenceand to ratify Critic Lionel Trilling's appraisal: "The most realistic and .
- Instead, he fired off a cable which, with measured stridence, told Wilson it was his last chance to avert "the implementation and consequences" of "our decision," demanded again .