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clangorous

  • a word derived from clangor.
    clangor
    noun
    a loud, resonant sound; clang.
  • a word derived from clangour.
    clangour
    noun
    a loud resonant often-repeated noise

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If cyborgs aren’t your thing, look away — but then you’d be missing one of the most welcomingly clangorous and charming tracks of 2023.

From Seattle Times Dec. 4, 2023

From the overture onward, Aucoin demonstrated his keen ability to navigate between the emotional worlds of the opera, veering from haunting evocations of loss and mourning into vertiginous episodes and even a clangorous dance party.

From Washington Post Nov. 24, 2021

As for “Tux and Fanny,” its animation is far more imaginative and more inspired than the clangorous gyrations of last year’s Oscar winner, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”

From The New Yorker May 28, 2019

It included a revival of the jeweled “Femenine” and a clangorous, intense evening of Eastman’s moody works for multiple pianos.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2018

An English heritage would explain his extraordinary charm and smooth manner, so unusual in brutish, clangorous Chicago.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson