A deep strain of ambivalence runs through this book.

It made him aware of the deep strain of anti-Semitism in Europe.

"I think radical nationalism is a deep strain in Javanese lives, and he's trying to tap it."

But this political-science label papers over deep strains in a region where democracy is often new and far from consolidated.

Thus constituted, these families were not without deep strains and stresses.

The deep humanist strain in him developed and he emerged as a rationalist.

As news of the crime spread, the city's newspapers gave voice to a deep strain of unrest.

All of rural Haiti is in flux and is experiencing a deep strain brought on by the earthquake.

The next year his father died, putting him in a deep economic strain, and his mother was forced to make her home into a boardinghouse.

Together with its 1972 forerunner, it brought a new and deeper strain of tragic realism into American culture.