There's no effort to show any of the life in London that's about to be brutally cut short; the only British characters are cops, MI6 agents, or SAS grunts, all talking in the strained speech of orders and official communications ("Southpaw is down". "I read you")., and dying in anonymous dozens.
Portia, the heroine, whose glorious "The quality of mercy is not strained" speech is a set piece for ingénue actresses everywhere, can't seem to heed her own advice when Shylock's comeuppance is brutally meted out in the trial scene, in which she, in disguise as a learned doctor, outfoxes Shylock's demand for his bond's penalty to be observed to the letter of the law.
In these strained circumstances, speech and emotion had to be repressed.
If that refrain evoked some strained recent speeches from our political world, so did "Year of the Tiger," which closes the album and came next to last here.
That is why his speeches are occasionally enlivened with obscure references to ice hockey, moose or, as in Thursday's speech, a rather strained metaphor linking central banking to canoeing.
During the second act, Monsignor Cooke Ed Setrakiann), the principal of the high school that the sisters once attended, drunkenly gives a speech, revealing more about their strained past, that sheds unexpected light on their characters.
Adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD) is an uncommon voice disorder characterized by intermittent voice stoppages, or breaks in voicing associated with over adduction of the vocal folds, resulting in a "strained-strangled" voice quality, and disfluent, effortful speech production.
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, wrote in an e-mail message that Father Jenkins's "statement is a strained and ultimately failed attempt to reconcile free speech rights with the mission of a Catholic institution".
The strained faces of the Supreme Court Justices during the speech taking place says it all.
REFLECTIONS about the strained relationship between blacks and Jews... Tells about the speech given at Kean College by K-alid Abdul Muhammad, the "Representative" and "National….
He also wrote some famous women's speeches, such as "The quality of mercy is not strained... .. and "O yet, for god's sake, go not to these wars... ..; Queen Elizabeth herself said in her "famous" Tilbury speech: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king..."...
