There is an autobiographical strain to the Hauser & Wirth show.
In the first place, there is a distinctly Frances Newman strain to the title.
"A major way to reduce strain to the arm is to take sufficient breaks," she said.
It rolls easily, fits neatly into the hand, and can be swung repeatedly without strain to the arm muscles.
Attributing human motivation and characteristics to an inanimate object suggests a Romantic strain to the artist's temperament.
Strain to the right and you can see a lighthouse, built with a unique pigmented, spiralled concrete.
Jonny, of course, adds yet another discordant strain to the piece.
There's a bullying strain to the modern fitness ethos, a blurred line between cheerleading and hectoring.
All of this has added strain to the ties with Israel.
Any new deployment to Iraq "was going to add additional strain to the armed forces of the United States," Pace told me.
Still, there's one strain to the well-orchestrated chorus of tea party complaints that does seem to have hit a chord.
