This disappoints her own mother, a failed revolutionary who thinks women must "push and strain forward" or "be part of the backward pull".
We also like the oversized center console cargo hold (under the armrest), which is big enough to swallow a laptop computer, and the rear seats that split and fold forward and do so with the simple pull of a lever at either side of the rear hatch, so you don't have to strain forward to flop them down if you have a bag of groceries in one hand.
A red streak in the snow serves as a starting line, beyond which a man with a stopwatch counts, "three, two, one... .. Nancy Coffelt leans back; her dogs strain forward.
In the silence, another student strained forward, her arm waving.
The image was beautiful, and in that moment of beauty I strained forward.
There's silence as he swallows and strains forward, frowning, as if about to clear an obstruction from his throat.
An Ethiopian wolf, head hanging low, straining forward, scenting the air speculatively.
Standing, he appears to be straining forward, and even when he is sitting down he leans in, as if about to get up again.
Children leapt from their seats, their mothers yelled answers, fathers strained forward, all hoping to catch the eye of Mr. Hussain, who worked the crowd like a circus ringmaster — cajoling, teasing, rewarding.
Speaking so quietly that Mr. Nichols and others strained forward to hear over a whirring fan in the sultry courtroom, Mr. Keel outlined the prosecution's evidence, including a receipt for the purchase of 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, the fertilizer that the authorities say was used as an explosive.
Today in Suffolk County Criminal Court, many of the jurors rose from their seats in the jury box and strained forward, trying to get a closer glimpse of an enlarged print taken from Mr. Offen's right palm and the print taken by Detective Carbone from the metal bar, a steering-wheel lock known as the Club.
