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125 examples of Shrill in a sentence

Good-looking production based on Compton Mac Kenzie's book, but strident and shrill.
The characters in GO were loud and shrill and charmless.
Victor Frankenstein is hysterical and his lady something of a shrill.
Apparently, again and again, Laughton ignored his director and instead of a subtle or believable performance, he was shrill and bellicose--looking nothing like the great actor he was in some of his other films.
Instead of playing Curley's wife as the pathetic yet lonely and almost unconsciously sexy woman that Sherilynn Fenn made her in the 1992 film, Betty Field makes her obnoxiously slutty, whiny, loud and shrill, and we are annoyed and repelled at her instead of being made to empathize with her plight.
Senior citizens can be shrill, depressing, and very boring, so you might think a movie that casts old people as 'hit men' would be good for a few laughs.
Somewhere, in the 'red-light' district, a high shrill and fatal scream rips the air as a woman is being savagely butchered.
As over-the-top and shrill as it is, I'm afraid Christina Crawford's account of Life With Mama is, for the most part, basically true.
If there is a distinct shrill ringing throughout us as the film plays out, it's because while conforming to gangster genre conventions, we see most of the world and most of the film unfold through the eyes and ultimately with two females: a very young girl and a middle aged woman, two people we feel are under threat and will have harm come to them if they're caught.
While I would normally overlook poor physical resemblances to the real life people an actor is portraying, it was nearly impossible to do whilst watching a tall, shrill woman portraying a woman who, in reality, was petite and classy.
The character of Mae is meant to be seen as both shrill and pathetic trapped in a loveless marriage in a setting where she thought she would be elevated considered one of "better people" of the community;has come to realize too late her true role as a breeder of more Curley's.
The animation is more spastic, the voices have lost all of their luster and are now shrill and annoying, and all of the characters have lost their personalities that we once loved.
Yet the reactions to his sad plight, especially in France, have been oddly shrill.
Increasingly, pillars of the establishment are sounding like shrill critics.
His shrill voice lacked the gravitas associated with the office, and he seemed statesmanlike only in situations that naturally created that image for him, such as the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and, more controversially, France’s intervention in Mali in 2013.
And they oppose those shrill voices who argue democracy is incompatible with Islam.
They failed to see that behind Margaret Thatcher’s blonde hair and shrill voice was a revolutionary politics that reflected and accelerated fundamental social and economic changes.
In spite of forebodings and shrill alarms, the oil markets continue to function, and China’s futures contracts have established themselves and overtaken in volume terms the dollar-denominated oil futures traded in Singapore and Dubai.
But barely a month later, the television news cameras are pointing elsewhere, and international leaders are switching off their phones, declining to hear the shrill cries coming out of Zimbabwe.
New shrill voices are rising to fill the void in human nature left by communism’s collapse.
If so, pundits might adapt to accountability by showing more humility, and political debate might begin to sound less shrill.
Alarmingly, the resulting political debate has degenerated into a shrill cacophony of moral righteousness, finger-pointing, scapegoating, and stereotyping.
Though Netanyahu’s shrill words still have an attentive audience in the US, most of Europe regards his position as being only a little short of ridiculous.
As they have so many times in history, defenders of dictatorship will try to stifle change by issuing increasingly shrill demands for non-intervention.
He could hear only the distant soft voice of the Marshal, then the shrill voice of the venomous nobleman, and then Sviyazhsky's voice.
In the centre of the room stood a man in uniform, who announced in a loud shrill voice:'As candidate for the post of Provincial Marshal, Captain Eugene Ivanich Apukhtin will now be balloted for.'
And now...''I beg,' began Karenin in a shrill voice, suddenly rising to his feet, pale and with trembling jaw, 'I beg you to stop... stop... this conversation!'
A shrill girl's voice said at last:"One of them must be on Mouquette, sure enough!" There was a roar of laughter, and the putters of the whole seam held their sides.
Only one shrill note came from a truck pushed by men.
The dancing still went on, and the end of a quadrille drowned the ball-room in red dust; the walls cracked, a cornet produced shrill whistling sounds like a locomotive in distress; and when the dancers stopped they were smoking like horses.
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