'Gavin thinks Gwen's amazing'!" And the PR makes a strained little smile.
First, it makes a strained epidemiological analogy comparing Facebook to a "disease" that users eventually "recover" from.
All you have to do is make a finely strained version of your favorite, delicious, homemade cranberry sauce, add a little pectin and let it set up in the fridge inside a tin can with ridges.
Michelle Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, cautioned that they might morph into mandatory "re-education camps," while the conservative commentator Glenn Beck recited the AmeriCorps pledge ("I will get things done for America," it begins) on television while wearing lederhosen — to make either a strained analogy to National Socialism or a daring fashion statement.
Local officials also launched two bottles of iced tea into a park pond -- again, making a slightly strained gesture in the direction of the Boston Tea Party and its protest over unjust taxation.
Hirsch and Kravitz, while strong performers, don't have a modicum of genuine chemistry when on screen together, making for a strained union.
At first the nature of the information as well as its delivery system made for a strained, sometimes incomprehensible and often questioning relationship between Maryellen and Dave in spite of his sangoma training where ancestors are believed to script one's dreams... "...
They stripped the pork from the bone and softened it with enough of the strained braising liquid to make a sauce.
The trickle of curious Iranian tourists visiting since Egypt eased visa restrictions, after three decades of strained ties, make an unlikely spearhead for fanatical Persian hordes.Yet Mr Gadallah's sectarian twitchiness is widely shared.
He was disgraced, fined and imprisoned, before being made a scapegoat to ease strained Dutch relations with the Japanese.
