Where have all our strident editorialists and big-mouthed politicians gone? |
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Their strident views have, like so many conservative inanities, now become mainstream. |
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It comes not at the behest of some charismatic national leader or the bidding of some strident national organization. |
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What I do know reminds me of the strident sort of PC left-winger who was embarrassingly mockable, and no one with any sense hung out with. |
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And that woman, that blowsy, strident woman who insists on telling everybody what she thinks of them. |
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Brakes strident, slewing to one side like a crippled ocean liner, I'd found myself pulling over to pick him up. |
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Still, there's a brassily strident edge of G.I. Joe-ness to the proceedings. |
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Industrialism's strident emergent element nestles comfortably in a cosy neo-pastoralist structure of feeling. |
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Some might say that it's because the actors are silly, strident, vacuous, and self-important. |
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Part four contains six short strident emotive poems while part five has an allegorical poem on violent death. |
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The slightly strident exterior is offset by a splendidly tranquil interior. |
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She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power. |
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Apparently, he had trouble making it to the sessions, but he still sounds fine, and if anything, his voice sounds warmer, less strident. |
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The only real flaw comes from the age and technical limitations of the time, which results in a somewhat harsh and strident sound on occasion. |
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Some of them sound quite nice and even have some directional placement, while others sound harsh and strident. |
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I slammed my drink down on the counter and the elder winced at the strident sound it made, but he refused to look up. |
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The mono tracks are somewhat harsh and strident, though the dialogue is always clearly understood. |
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For example, if the voice is too loud and strident, that indicates excess, as does the sudden onset of a violent cough. |
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I tried to sleep on the hour-long ride, but the harsh, strident sound became louder and the long menacing finger pointed angrily. |
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This is a shrill, strident performance by someone who displays little or no aptitude for comedy or drama. |
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I plunk along, hitting so many strident notes that it sounds like I tried to compose the piece myself. |
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The commander seemed to become shriller and more strident the more I held my tongue in check and treated the board of inquiry with respect. |
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Its raw strident sound was one of the first to make use of the rhythms of jazz. |
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There were many strident and discordant passages, but in the context of the work as a whole they seemed entirely appropriate. |
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There is a bit of sibilance and strident qualities to the sound, but not in a distracting or annoying manner. |
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The strident noise moved through the pounding rain, and then the figure lowered its head and perked its long ears. |
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At length, Caleb heard Audrey's strident laughter and hurriedly returned his attention to his cousin. |
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The greatest degree of pharyngealisation is found in the strident vowels of the Khoisan languages. |
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Jim Lee's strident letter against religious fundamentalism a few weeks ago carried more than a hint of fundamentalism itself. |
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Readers respect us for our impartiality and balance, but does that mean we should never carry more strident views? |
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However, signals from the White House have continued to be cautious, not echoing the strident tone of the activists. |
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The Reserve Bank has said so, in steadily louder and more strident tones, for at least a year. |
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Domestically they were strident, harsh, and intolerant, especially to other ethnic groups. |
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Arianna may have blown her chance for a television career with strident, shrill posturing. |
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Such strident views worry me, but I leave the politics of England to those here. |
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Despite strident criticisms of her views from legal academics and at times her brethren, she has maintained her positions with dignity. |
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The shrillness and strident rhetoric probably did their cause more harm than good. |
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He likes to hold the floor and has strident views on just about everything. |
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You gave yourself away with all your he-man posturing and strident super-patriotism. |
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To come out to boos is one of the most strident messages you can receive about the way you are perceived as a person. |
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His strident tone and lack of reasoned argument makes me curious about his academic credentials. |
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He's also a strident critic of the auction system, and dubious about recent reforms. |
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And I'm sure they'll be as strident and demagogic as ever in warning us of the disastrous consequences of failure. |
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Not just because she swears a lot, holds strident political views or gossips freely about the pomposity of certain Scottish theatre critics. |
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I don't think that will happen given just how strident the given all the judge's previous admonitions to this panel. |
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Some of the most strident support for amending Article 9 and rearming Japan is to be found in Washington, rather than Tokyo. |
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His voice was strident with alarm, and his beautiful eyes were dark with fear. |
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Shabby suburban streets are suddenly relieved by an almost strident red building, crisply detailed and well tended. |
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Of course, the more strident it gets, the more we will reach for our zappers and switch to something less intrusive. |
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But are the strident anti-American voices not to be heard and reckoned with by British readers and viewers? |
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Others had more strident critiques of American society and envisioned radical social changes that struck at the root of inequality. |
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Her mother's a pretty strident feminist though and she talked her father round. |
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More strident liberal critics accuse Taranto of using humor to sugarcoat an otherwise malodorous agenda. |
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During the 1950 campaign, fallout from McCarthyism and strident anti-Communism began to take its toll on Utah's Democratic candidates. |
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It is a voice that veers from strident to enveloping warmth in a sentence, occasionally broken by cut-glass tinkly laughter. |
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Fitzgerald is a reformed alcoholic, a strident non-drinker, with firm views on zero tolerance of alcohol as the only way to treat problem drinkers. |
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Following the collapse of the U.S.S.R. that was fueled by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's strident anti-communist policies, Germany was able to reunify. |
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You may find him strident, irritating or humourless, but fact of the matter is the involuntary shudder running up your back after that line is real enough. |
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The twitches of annoyance caused by this woman's strident voice hammering against my skull began to ebb away when I heard her sign off from the call. |
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I was well aware by this stage that Judy was in constant dispute with the local authority and held strident views about their perceived inadequacies. |
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Phyllis is a short, stocky, enraged-seeming woman with a high, strident voice and piercing stare. |
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The reason, by and large, is his strident and divisive agenda on social issues. |
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In attempts to scare you, there are several moments in the film that use strident and extremely loud bursts of audio, combined with a perfectly timed cut, quite effectively. |
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Years ago, as I walked with a veteran guide called Cecil Evans, the two of us were confronted by a bull elephant that bore down on us with a terrible, strident scream. |
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For the strident opposition to gun ownership that characterizes the antigun lobby foredooms the cooperation that is essential if better controls are to be enacted and obeyed. |
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Abbreviated from a 1925 Paris exhibition, art deco was a mix of cubism, art nouveau and Russian ballet, with a fondness for strident colours and geometric lines. |
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When the male-female pairs aren't demonstrating strident misalliance or hopeless anomie, they confront one another as units destined for mutual inscrutability. |
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The Danish astrologer I referred to is one such individual, joining in the cacophony of screeches and strident appeals to action, all based on lies and inventions. |
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The inventive opening street brawl and the high-octane sword fight between a strident Mercutio and Tybalt are peaks in a work that is not shy to entertain. |
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The duo have a lot in common and a fresh face fronting the most successful airline in Europe would present a less strident visage to the EU and the general public. |
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As the morning progressed, the gentle shimmering hues gave way to powerful strokes of deep blue and strident greens competing with shades of sunshiny yellow. |
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His most characteristic paintings are in an extremely uninhibited and agitated Expressionist vein, with strident colours and violent brushwork applied with very thick impasto. |
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On the other hand, he has loud and extremely strident conservative positions on the war and on gun control, and these get far more attention on his blog than anything else. |
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In Hosea, the sexual images are equally clear and far less strident. |
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It's not strong enough to be strident nor tender enough to be vixenish. |
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That said, les Reines's approach to politics bears little resemblance to the strident methods of North America's street activists and big womyn on campus. |
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As Schaeffer grew more strident and political, his son was his right-hand man. |
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How Kennan's prescription would eventually serve to overcome these obstacles was far from clear, one reason he found himself attacked by strident cold warriors. |
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The tone becomes increasingly strident until a reprise of the opening is followed by a moment of calm that precedes a violent and sarcastic conclusion. |
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I'd have the strident voices of Zulu women talking to each other across the width of a suburban street, and the rhythmic songs of strikers toyi-toying among impatient traffic. |
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His day began with a shrill and strident press statement banged out at about 1 o'clock, which is long before he could have understood what the Government was up to. |
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Although Ehrlich was certainly the most strident doomster, he was far from alone in his famine forecasts. |
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Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air. |
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Three cotoneaster bushes are blossoming and a strident spear thistle towers above the nettles there. |
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Throughout the 1880s the Fabian Society remained small, its message of moderation frequently unheard among more strident voices. |
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The dolphins emit these strident sounds when in the presence of other individuals moving towards the same prey. |
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Note that the terms pharyngealized, epiglottalized, strident, and sphincteric are sometimes used interchangeably. |
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During the singing act these wing surfaces are moved rapidly on each other, producing the familiar strident trillings of midsummer. |
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It is, they say, more genuine and less strident, more conversational and less stagey. |
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The Restoration moderated most of the more strident sectarian writing, but radicalism persisted after the Restoration. |
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The daffodils I planted in the autumn are marching their way along the path, strident trumpets fanfaring the first warmish day of the year. |
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Their strident assessments notwithstanding, Neuhaus is not a fundamentalist or a theocrat. |
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Then the beat kicks in, followed shortly thereafter by strident vocals. |
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His strident screams can be heard on the other side of the wall. |
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Pipe band drummers now play on drums with very tight, knitted kevlar heads, designed for maximum tension to create a very crisp and strident sound. |
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Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress. |
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In particular, the rocket with the image of Padre Pio has a truly extraordinary disorienting effect, so obvious and so strident that it becomes a perfect metaphysical object. |
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