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What does plangency mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being plangent.
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His Orestes is a confused, grandstanding jock, intoning his lines with stentorian plangency.
Ben Johnson's performance as Alfredo is heroic, transcending his impossible character and delivering his arias with heart-rending plangency.
Her subjects may revolve around love, loss, and guilt but poignancy rarely tips over into plangency.
He rarely indulges in plangency and is as sparing with his emotional effects as he is generous with his melodic and rhythmic effects.

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