Word: plangent
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...plangent Southern accent coming through the telephone receiver was familiar. The political philosophy was downright unmistakable. "The Supreme Court should be abolished," Martha Mitchell told the Washington Evening Star last week after the court had rejected the arguments of Husband John Mitchell's Justice Department against desegregation by busing (see THE NATION). "We should extinguish the Supreme Court," she decreed. "We have no youth on the court, no Southerners, no women-just nine old men. I have never been so furious. Nine old men should not overturn the tradition of America...
...screen door pushed outward in a slow swing, the spring on the screen door stretching vibrantly, a plangent twang, WRIRRRAANG, which, more than any other sound, more than all those overworked katydids, crickets, tree frogs, etc., seems to evoke the heart of summer...
...keeds came home exhausted and sandy and wet and hungry. Plangent Merilee to have a house full of food after all the months of mendicancy and feeding Girl scraps gleaned from the bins behind supermarkets...
Nobody performs the blues like B. B. King -except, perhaps, Lucille. Resplendent in an iridescent raspberry-red suit, King clutches his fists up beside his temples as his voice shifts from a plangent baritone to a falsetto wail: "Worry, worry, worry- worry...
Tamara Long, as the slinky heavy, brandishes a flaming Morganitic torch for her Mister Man, and Sally Stark, as Ruby's peroxided pal, belts a note almost as plangent as the great Merman's. The comic delight of the show, though, is Bernadette Peters, whose Ruby can simultaneously sing and dance up a storm that puts all New York (including Queen Mane of Rumania) at her feet. She can also lament her unrequited love with a tear that streaks mascara down her cheek in a lugubrious perfection of timing...