The first large deformation tests on human and Rhesus monkey brain tissues with up to 270 % stretch revealed a nonlinear response with concave upward stress-strain curves (Estes and McElhaney 1970).
Both female figures have the tall, slim proportions and small feet considered beautiful at the time, but otherwise they form a contrast: Dawn, a virginal figure, strains upward along her curve as if trying to emerge into life; Night is asleep, but in a posture suggesting stressful dreams.
Helium balloons strained upward, everywhere.
It presses down or strains upward in a way that gives otherwise inexplicable animation to the forms above.
One man had a cardboard box of pit-bull puppies, fifty dollars each, straining upward with wrinkly, reptilian smiles.
The extraordinarily stern look on my mother's face above her starched apron, as he strained upward to the beater, disturbs me to this day.
And when the groups merged, it seemed a natural extension of Mr. Varone's trademark tableaus, cantilevered compositions in which someone is always straining upward.
"A show?" "No, really," Larry said, strained upward, and coughed in Caperton's ear the name of the showrunner, and how this fellow had also created another hit series.
An aging Chinese woman in a wheelchair marvels, while a young South Asian man in another wheelchair strains upward so his friend can snap his face against the backdrop of that nighttime view.
Mrs. Slocombe, a senior saleswoman, played by Mollie Sugden, is middle-middle-class but straining upward with every muscle; a common joke is that she's heartier and more daring than her male colleagues.
