astringent
adjective
contracting; constrictive; styptic.
astringently
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a word derived from
astringent.
Example Sentences
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A royal in exile, astringently self-possessed, her syllables arrayed like fine china, she was at once instantly recognizable and readily transformable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
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
More astringently, the writer Ruby Namdar testifies to the “wound that, deep inside, never healed,” for Jews, of the lost Temple.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
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
