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Strokes in sentence

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Intense themes of alienation, lust, power, anger and confusion are painted with broad and overlapping strokes in this powerhouse of a movie.
And so up they go and down they go, the roads and the tramps, and all the other people in that village, uphill and downhill, upstage and downstage, upriver and downriver, up the strokes and down the strokes to paint and paint and paint reality till no one recognizes it or sees it.
Lots of good humor and intentionally broad strokes make the holy teachings vivid and entertaining--and still their message comes through clearly.
Evil and good in absolute black and white strokes.
But there are certainly strokes of genius in "E la nave VA", the nostalgic and highly critical of TV "Ginger and Fred", the delightfully autobiographical "Intervista" or even the "lunatic" and "moonstruck" "La voice Della Luna".
The portrait that emerges has been executed with bold strokes, vivid colors, and striking images.
Was she laying down the broad strokes and ambition of her own presidency?
The sudden loss of many brain cells as a result of strokes or injuries must have serious effects on an animal’s survival.
Initiatives that encourage people to exercise regularly can help to reduce the incidence of strokes, cancer, and depression, resulting in higher productivity and lower health-care costs.
For some health issues – such as elevated cholesterol – screening yields positive results: a simple blood test measures the amounts of good and bad cholesterol in the blood, making it easier to detect related cardiovascular disease, which could lead to heart attacks or strokes.
That, in broad strokes, is our urgent task.
The death toll from non-communicable diseases like strokes and heart attacks is higher still.
But there is far less brain activity when the person being scanned strokes her own palm.
In fact, we have found precisely that: patients with delusions of control report that the sensations that occur when they stroke their own palm are just as intense as the sensations caused when someone else strokes their palm.
The Paris agreement has drawn the first broad strokes of a solution to climate change.
For example, when the new class of painkillers called Cox-2 inhibitors was introduced, regulators, physicians, and patients were unaware that these drugs could cause heart attacks and strokes.
A series of bold foreign-policy strokes – the Asia Cooperation Dialogue, the Economic Cooperation Strategy for the development of mainland Southeast Asia, and America’s designation of Thailand as a “major non-NATO ally” – turned the international spotlight on Thaksin during his first term.
In broad strokes, this requires a deliberate and significant boost to research and development spending.
Seven parents, despite being relatively young, have died of heart attacks or strokes, to which the intolerable strains of their situation may have contributed.
Some voters slashed their ballots boldly, decapitating the old regime with flourishing strokes.
But by the early 1930s, after several small strokes, he was suffering from dementia, and his weak and incapable son, Oskar, controlled all access to him.
Artificial hearts, for example, can cause clots to form when blood hits their surface – the girdle material – and these clots can cause strokes and death.
They wreak havoc by traveling deep into the lungs, contributing to inflammation, cancer, and respiratory infection, or by passing into the bloodstream, where they can trigger changes in blood vessels that cause heart attacks and strokes.
Diabetes already is the major cause of kidney failure, blindness, and lower-limb amputation in many countries, and a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.
This would also benefit patients with brain and spinal injuries, or those who have suffered strokes and paralysis.
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer, and diabetes.
Center-right and center-left coalitions agreed on broad strokes.
And above, the wind grew stronger--an icy north wind--and its great, regular breaths passed by like the strokes of a scythe.
In her weariness she had, as usual, counted the four strokes through the floor without the strength to arouse herself completely.
He would not leave his picking, he dealt great strokes which shook him violently between the two rocks, like a fly caught between two leaves of a book and in danger of being completely flattened.
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