Mr. Acito has a gift for unpretentious lyrics that are meaningful and clever without straining for rhyme and that can be moving, too.
And without straining for effect, the movie evokes the tension of facing down a determined batter in front of thousands of people and the concentration, control and patience demanded by each encounter.
Sales broadens the story carefully to make it comment sharply on wider issues without straining for significance: the sexualisation of children, the empty aspirations of a fame culture, the vaunted narcissism of the music these teenagers listened to and the films they watched, the corrupt and corrupting political climate in which they grew up.
A carriage ride is handled deftly and amusingly without straining for laughs.
And the right has been exercised, not without strains, for as long as the Republic has been in existence -- an achievement that would make its architects proud.
He makes them all smart, or at least screen worthy, in different ways... It's a pleasure to watch Witherspoon relax on screen, as she does in 'How Do You Know,' and play material for all it's worth without straining for effect.
In addition, larger GaAs DE QDs can be grown on AlGaAs without strain effect, for larger oscillation strength, compared with InAs QDs on GaAs.
Thus, genome-wide expression profiling was conducted on gingival fibroblasts treated with or without mechanical strain for 72 hours.
To address whether the increase in CCN2 expression in response to strain was dependent on TGFβ, we initially performed real-time PCR analysis on mRNAs treated with or without mechanical strain for 72 hours.
The Rangers, playing without Mark Messier (shoulder strain) for the fifth straight game, had their chances to put the game away early.
