Strain
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For a few moments this tends to
strain
credulity when watching this in 2010 but we're soon wallowing in the great casting that tosses such disparate actors as Bob Steele, Zero Mostel, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts, Ted de Corsica and Bogie into the mix.
For one- and this has happened a lot to me- the sound and the music was very loud, but the dialogue was extremely soft, so soft that you had to
strain
to hear anything.
It is true that Fred did indeed have a drinking problem for which he was fired but evidence shows that much of this was due to the immense
strain
he was under rather than a wilful character defect.It could be said that he was the worlds first commercial aerial navigator.
that is, we have little to no idea of what they do when they're not horsing about, making out, or talking about how much of a
strain
their relationship is to the both of them.
This puts an extra
strain
on his already tenuous relationship with Liv.
The film is well-paced, with all the plot turns and clues coming with perfect timing, not too fast to be confusing, but not too slow to
strain
the rather flimsy fabric of the story.
Moreover, unlike The Rockford Files and others which
strain
credibility by portraying a supposedly successful detective as always having trouble paying his bills, Cannon shows a very successful detective surrounded by the trappings of success such as a beautiful Mark IV and an expensive penthouse apartment.
As she uncovers the mostly gross secrets of her uncle's life and building, she begins to lose her mind under the strain, though someone in the background might be after her, as well.
I can site two examples: 1) In DAWN PATROL he starts cracking up under the stress and
strain
of his command position; 2) In THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON, Flynn senses that he is going to probably die on his last military mission (as does his wife Olivia de Havilland).
This movie has a very gloomy setting, but really the feelings expressed, the magnitude of love is so powerful that the dull surroundings do not
strain
the viewer.
One can see why Hayakawa would have been a successful silent film actor with his elegant physical presence and one can simultaneously hear why he didn't cut the mustard in talkies - the accent is so thick that one must
strain
to understand him.
Lucy & Jerry Warriner
strain
their marriage by suspecting each other of cheating, so much so, a day in court leaves them with a 90 day prelude to a divorce.
Soon Bugs is in stripes, but it's the guard who will find prison life to be hell when Bugs Bunny is around to trick him into a cell, the hangman's noose, an electric chair and even into the warden's office, where Bugs will put a severe
strain
on the relationship between boss and underling.
The story is so thin you can
strain
jam through it and is padded out with a couple of tension-building sequences.
A virulent
strain
of ugly and lethal parasites turn the residents of a swanky deluxe apartment complex into depraved sex-crazed fiends.
Although he was apparently about the propose to his partner, Clare, before the accident in the opening scene, there is some unspecified
strain
in their relationship which prevents her being at all supportive when his problems begin, but what this is remains completely obscure.
The opening scenes
strain
credulity for their "meeting cute" -- what normal straight guy decides he may be gay because he can't commit.
There's hardly a smile to be found in this dark, brooding, oppressively heavy drama which tells of an American DEA agent (Keitel) who comes to London to assist in the capture of a drug trafficker as the UK bends under the
strain
of a virulent drug trade.
On the day of the Incheon visit, North Korea’s state news agency continued the bellicose and derogatory language toward South Korea and the US: “Lurking behind this is an ulterior design of the US to [prod more] zealously the South Korean puppet forces into escalating the confrontation with the DPRK in a bid to
strain
the situation to an extreme pitch and ignite [a] second Korean War.”
There is no denying that the technological turning point at which we find ourselves has caused
strain
for all countries.
Any country that refuses to do so will create
strain
for all – and end up condemning itself to being left behind.
But, given a rising bidding rate, peaking capital costs, and restrictions on the downstream transfer of assets, these efforts seem unlikely to ease the
strain.
In response to concerns that migrants will
strain
education, housing, or transport, one might make the case for better schools, more planning permission, or increased infrastructure investment.
Resource industries – indeed, resource-based economies like Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Russia – have become addicted to China’s old
strain
of unsustainable hyper-growth.
Europe's Overdue ReformationWar and its huge cost; the falling dollar; mounting trade and budget deficits; the chicanery that hollowed out companies like Enron and WorldCom; the bursting of the high-tech bubble: capitalism American-style is both under
strain
and under a cloud.
At a time when the global economy’s underlying structures are under strain, this could have far-reaching consequences.
In an attempt to recapture his former popularity, Putin implemented salary increases for teachers, doctors, and police officers, putting regional budgets under
strain
in the process.
But the more countries employ this strategy, the greater the
strain
on the banking sector.
Worse, imagine what would happen when we encounter a genuinely dangerous new pathogen, such as a
strain
of H5N1 avian flu (which in its current form has a mortality rate more than 100 times higher than H1N1) that is easily transmissible between humans.
But, with increasing
strain
on the planet’s resources, meeting this demand could carry massive environmental costs from pollution and global warming.
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