| The shrillness of our ideological debates, the emotional shallowness, the vulgarity of our culture, would have appalled him. |
| It is reminiscent of McClellan's shrillness against his civilian overseers who precipitously wanted an odious slavery ended. |
| On the sound side, the Dolby Digital Stereo mix is decidedly high ended, but there is no shrillness, tinniness, or distortion to be found. |
| Their songs have a certain keening shrillness that will leave all but the hardiest nerves frazzled and jangling. |
| The shrillness and strident rhetoric probably did their cause more harm than good. |
| This is an increasingly complicated and vital issue, but when handled with such shrillness and heavy-handed irony, the message is soon lost. |
