Aping the intelligent camerawork and cinematography of Monsters, the new film sees Godzilla and his fellow kaiju shot from angles and in light that never gives too much away: we are always straining our eyes to make sense of the vast and savage horrors before us.
Tolerance was always strained.
Yet his relationship with Longson was always strained.
Relations with Zanzibar, which had united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania with Nyerere as president, were always strained.
In human terms, their relationship was always strained (Olivier was, he says, "a strangely hidden man"); not so with Mr. Gielgud, whom he admires for his "intuitive sense of quality," a trait that Mr. Gielgud shares with Mr. Brook.
Now I recognize as heroic Guston's surrender of a lifelong yearning for august refinement, which was always strained and tinged with falseness, coming from a tragic junkman's son.
His mother was a distant figure, and their relationship was always strained.
Leo's relations with his father Basil were always strained, and when Theophano informed him of this affair, Basil reportedly became enraged, beat Leo until he bled, and married Zoe off to one Theodore Gouzouniates.
For Dolce & Gabbana, the impulse toward excess is always straining against the boundaries of good tailoring.
