Strident in a sentence as an adjective

You seem rather strident in your defense of this patent.

Microsoft needs to cut the cruft, somehow, take its time, dial back its strident "look how great we are!

It's prett easy to hate on this analyst and his strident, obsessive tone, but he's right on the money.

There's nothing like the fiery, strident rhetoric of a manifesto to get one's heart pounding.

For a guy who is otherwise rather easy going, Notch can be incredibly pragmatic and strident.

People assume you are better at coding, math, and suchlike, and are more strident in their criticism of you when you fail to live up to their standards.

In face-to-face conversation there are lots of ways to do that without being strident; in writing it's too heavy-handed.

The worry is she either got rolled by more strident hawks in the Bush Administration or went along willingly because she believed the arguments.

That's the problem when someone uses such strident language and paints with such a broad brush - its very easy to just call them out on their lack of nuance and over-generalization

I'm not arguing that the NSA threat isn't worrisome; it is. But other threats are in fact even worse!As HN's possibly-most strident torchbearer for the measurement of organizational dynamics, can you quantify this statement?

Competition doesn't mesh with the kumbaya, sunshine and happiness tone of open source, but it is fairly strident stance to say companies have to go out of their way to hurt their own products to be open.

The media routinely publishes terrifyingly sensitive government secrets over the direct and strident objections of the DoJ and gets hauled into court to defend itself.

Every tin-foil hatter or teenage naif out there is using it as their personal forum in this pissing match of who can be more strident over something that any halfway intelligent person had assumed was happening already.

I don't think I would take that strident battle-against-dinosaurs view, in part because I think intellectually understanding things is useful in and of itself, not some kind of "just build it and shut up" anti-intellectual view; and also because I don't think it's an accurate summary of the history of AI.

Strident definitions

adjective

conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"

See also: blatant clamant clamorous vociferous

adjective

of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

See also: fricative continuant sibilant spirant

adjective

being sharply insistent on being heard; "strident demands"; "shrill criticism"

See also: shrill

adjective

unpleasantly loud and harsh

See also: raucous