The word "strokes" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word "strokes" as a verb to mean something as simple as brushing something or as complex as doing something in order to influence an outcome. For example: "Naomi stroked the cat to help soothe her nerves."
Safarova, who put Sharapova out in the fourth round, was too sure in her ground strokes for the seventh seed Ivanovic, who won this title in 2008, cheered on here again by the German footballer Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Spector are being pitched, it is said, as "somewhere between Roxy Music and the Strokes, the Killers and Kanye West, Pulp and R&B and Frank Sinatra".
It is because he is such a naturally gifted player that Henman is able to play so aggressively - he worries, though, that the range of strokes he has at his disposal is as big a problem as it is a benefit.
As well as suffering increased risk of chest infections, strokes and heart attacks due to cold homes, elderly people become less agile, and more likely to fall and break a bone.
In one of her last interviews, she described a perfect day at her Porthmeor studio watching the Atlantic rollers carving the shoreline in these terms: "The strokes of the hammer on the chisel should be in time with your heartbeat.
"A powerful film, its dramatic brush strokes broad and colourful, its psychological points made with considerable subtlety and wit," French wrote of Django Unchained, " … it places Tarantino among the most impressive film-makers at work today".
A further 6,000 deaths a year from heart attacks or strokes might have been prevented if the reduction programme had not been interrupted before resuming under an industry-dominated committee.
They say: "We went to see the Strokes play a secret gig last year and had such an amazing night, we thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to have a place to share this?' – a blog that shows London through the eyes of a girl and a boy".
In that sense, Pride's broader strokes come to feel oddly apt.
From the subject who proclaims "the white race is the one that is discriminated against anymore" to the woman who admits that "this country has been dominated by white male indoctrination", Dow makes it hard to paint whiteness in broad strokes, and hard to dismiss racism as the anecdotal actions of a beleaguered few in the American south.
The truth: It's disco for Strokes fans as well as Studio 54 nostalgists.
