Strain
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This is an awfully slow movie and it's Ingmar Bergman so of course be prepared to bored rigid with endless celluloid lectures about the
strain
and awkwardness of (an already uninteresting ) middle class life for 2 hours.
More example sentences with word strain
She took our order, and then went to the couple in the booth next to us, and she lowered her voice so much, I had to really
strain
to hear what she was saying.
So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.
In the best of times it puts
strain
on our resources.
I gave her medications to relieve the
strain
on her heart.
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