Citations:percussant

English citations of percussant

• 1989, Gwyn A. Williams, Artisans and Sans-culottes: Popular Movements in France and Britain During the French Revolution, Libris:

  ... his genuine compassion, above all his percussant style and quotable pungencies, won him an audience among the humblest. But it was not the factory proletarian or the propertyless who really felt Paine along their nerves.

• 1961, Garry Allighan, Verwoerd, the End: A Look-back from the Future:

  Not for Celliers the percussant authority of van Wyk or the visionary emotionalism of Rametse; he neither declaimed with an empire-builder's timbre nor orated as if hearing the drums calling him to glory. With an alphabet of degrees […]

• 1975, Gwyn A. Williams, Proletarian Order: Antonio Gramsci, Factory Councils and the Origins of Italian Communism, 1911-1921:

  ... percussant and powerful, confident , riveting, hammers at the mind with such insistence that it becomes difficult to grasp that what it celebrated was the election of workshop commissars in a single factory and that by a […]

• 1973, A TREASURY OF MODRN MYSTERIES:

  The building was a vast steel shell, percussant with the sustained thunder of machines and men. A greenish haze obscured its far reaches, swimming around shafts of yellow-green sunlight that pillared down through crane tracks and […]

• 1985, Glenn Daniel Wilson, The Psychology of the Performing Arts:

  ... displayed by a lack of muscle tension (which amounts to an absence of preparation for doing anything) and by the open-teeth smile which, by contrast with percussant laughter, is a friendly, happy, appeasing sort of gesture.

• 1847, Hogg's Weekly Instructor, page 247:

  ... various directions so as to subject every part of the mass to the heavy and repeated blows of the hammer, which in this manner, by a powerful and percussant sort of kneading process, renders the metal more tenacious and compact.