When Fey and Wiig and Dunham use it in any one of their projects, it's a way of criticizing and distancing themselves from being pussies, which is to say other female characters and sensitive men (often defined as the same thing), with their annoying, strident, "process-y," without-balls, stereotypical female behavior.
Mad Men seemingly still brings Hamm as much joy as the first time he played the role of Draper, following a notoriously strident seven-audition process.
Political reform is coming to China and Western politicians should avoid prolonging the process through strident remarks and posturing that only give ammunition to Chinese hard-liners.
"What Trump and Sanders have both done very effectively is mount a strident criticism against the traditional political process," he says.
Dave was concerned because he was still totally sober – I think the combination of the cold and the strident political speeches was slowing the chemical process down. .
Dave was concerned because he was still totally sober—I think the combination of the cold and the strident political speeches was slowing the chemical process down. .
The process is eased by the decline of strident nationalism, and by the assimilation of Yeats into the Celtic tiger's tourist trade.
Perhaps Musical chairs Soaring In brief Smoke signals ReprintsIan Paisley, the strident leader of the hardline Democratic Unionist Party, damns the entire talks process as a sellout to the IRA, and he has sworn that his party will not be at the table.
But the government's extensive battery of tests and the strident debate over GM foods in Britain slowed the application process.
"Grounding" was very much a child of the times, being a loosely structured process piece, complete with wailing soprano saxophones (anchoring a movement called "Strident Bands") and a trio of aggressively amplified vocalists chanting fragments of Tantric poetry and excerpts from "Laws of Form," a book on symbolic logic, by G. Spencer-Brown.
Zack Snyder is clearly out to seal his "visionary director" status with this strident anthem to the power of the imagination, but he might well have destroyed it in the process.
