31. And its composers display an equally broad stylistic range, from tonal lyricism to atonal stridency to Broadway patter. 32. And yet the campaign against smoking has at times taken on a stridency bordering on the intolerant and illiberal. 33. "I would certainly say that there's a trend against stridency , " she said. 34. Inner angst meets arena rock; power chords mesh with quasi-operatic singing; sentimentality runs headlong into stridency . 35. Though troubled by some stridency in her sustained singing, Cheryl Studer brings affecting poignancy to her portrayal of the Countess. 36. The thought, and the episode that follows, have the gear-clashing stridency of an adult mechanism of recollection. 37. The decision to increase the Sudan's role in regional conflicts has been accompanied by a new stridency against the West. 38. And indeed, Friday's attacks lacked much of the stridency that marked the debate leading up to the Cairo conference. 39. His backers expect him to do equally well this time, but his stridency and his extreme positions may limit his potential. 40. But Buchanan's stridency took some of the luster off what should have been the brightest week so far for Dole.
