But, for all the high spirits at Gaultier, there was something a little sad and just a bit strained about the spectacle.
The relationship between Earl Williams, a narcotics detective, and one of his confidential informers, known as Robin, had been strained for about a year when Detective Williams received a phone call from him in October 2007.
Some of his conceits thud or overshoot; for instance, a revolting and in any case strained bit about sex with an omelet that, fertilized, flaps chickenlike away.
"We should no longer buy the statistically strained arguments about [free trade policies] delivering growth and jobs.
He previously vowed to slow down and then went ahead and outproduced his colleagues while they worried about the strain on him.
Still, for now, the intensity of the desire to unseat Mr. Obama may be Mr. Romney's most important ally, overcoming whatever qualms various strains of conservatives have about him.
This strain is about equal to the strain amplitude for the onset of nonlinearity in oscillatory shear experiments.
His supporters worried about legitimacy and strained to broadcast proficiency.
The networks were strained but just about coping.
An overshoot in stress is observed at a strain of about 0.1.
