astringent
adjective
contracting; constrictive; styptic.
astringently
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a word derived from
astringent.
Example Sentences
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Best-laid plans None other than David Fincher was signed up to direct a new take on Dennis Kelly’s astringently original thriller-shocker about geeks tumbling into a criminal conspiracy.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2017
Her favorite Old Master, she told me, dating to her days in Rome, is Andrea Mantegna—the brother-in-law of Giovanni Bellini, who is as astringently flinty as Bellini is meltingly honeyed.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
It is not lost on her that those extremes are astringently placed in relief in both "Cabaret" and "Birdman."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2015
Mr. Rihm’s score, while recognizably the music of a formidable atonal modernist, pulses with Wagnerian sweep, Straussian lushness and astringently alluring harmonic writing beholden to Berg yet somehow fresh.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2010
Shouldn't sailed astringently into the air, the speaker an African-American girl wearing bamboo hoop earrings.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
