Mira Nair

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Indian Director

Lynda Barry

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?

American Cartoonist

Jack Whitehall

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

British Comedian

Louis C. K.

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

American Comedian

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

American Journalist

Michael Novak

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

American Philosopher

Josh Radnor

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

American Director

Letitia Baldrige

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.

American Writer

Michael Azerrad

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

American Author

Use 'clang' to describe a strong sound made when heavy metal objects hit each other.

Loud Impact

Often used for noises in factories, workshops, or construction where metal is common.

Industrial Setting

'Clang' suggests a metallic quality of the object making the sound, not plastic or wood.

Metal Objects

'Clang' implies a sound that is sudden and can startle or grab attention.

Sudden Loudness

Bells or gongs often 'clang' to signal time or alert to events.

Bell Sounds

'Clang' can indicate an associated event like the start or end of something.

Associated Events

A 'clang' can be iconic, like the sound of a specific bell tied to an institution.

Cultural Symbolism

Refers to related words that come from the same root, common in linguistics.

Linguistic Family

The linguistic use of 'clang' is mostly found in academic or educational contexts.

Academic Term

Understanding a clang helps grasp the meaning and history of words.

Word Origin

 and you feel the metronome clang of bells vibrating inside your chest and a wave of furnace-like heat consuming everything in its reach, you realize how removed you truly are from the ritual of death." That was the most run-on sentence I've ever written in my life, but I liked it.

Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...

 His battle cries and the clang of weapons echoed throughout the underworld. Sensing a disturbance, the ten Death Lords swooped upon him. But they had never met such resistance from a mortal soul. What was this unusual creature? And was he a mortal, a god— or something else?

How the Monkey King...

 there's still little separation between people and wildlife and livestock. Here, you can still hear the cow bells clanging as a little boy brings his goats to water on the mighty Ewaso Ng’iro river. And behind him, nibbling on the tops of trees, are giraffes.