Patti Davis

My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.

American Celebrity

Nigel Hamilton

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.

British Author

Geoffrey Boycott

I don't think anybody can totally change what they are. I'd always been a strident individual, but cancer does smooth off a lot of the edges. I have been lucky to have survived an extra 12 years of my life with my wife and daughter.

British Athlete

Twinkle Khanna

People feel feminists are aggressive, men-hating women with a little moustache. I think it's got a bad reputation because when feminism came into being, we were facing so much opposition that we had to be strident and aggressive.

Indian Businesswoman

Godfrey Reggio

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

American Director

Martin Luther King, Jr.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

American Leader

Jamal Khashoggi

Writers like me, whose criticism is offered respectfully, seem to be considered more dangerous than the more strident Saudi opposition based in London.

Saudi Arabian Author

Gillian Jacobs

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

American Actress

Louis Theroux

I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

British Director

Richard Dawkins

English Scientist

Strident describes both a high volume and a high pitch that can be unpleasant.

Volume and Pitch

The word 'strident' often implies irritation or discomfort caused by the sound.

Negative Emotion

'Strident' is rarely used for musical sounds, as it implies a lack of harmony.

Not Musical

'Strident' indicates a person is expressing their opinions in a determined, forceful way.

Forceful Opinion

Being strident can be seen as aggressive or confrontational in debates or discussions.

Perceived Aggression

Often used in political contexts where there is passionate or forceful expression.

Political Context

 measles in this country now and it's getting worse and pretty soon kids are going to die again because it's just a numbers game and they're not just going to die of measles what about polio let's have that why not a college classmate of mine wrote me a couple weeks ago and said you know she thought it was a little strident no one's ever

The danger of science...

 length of our strident for a long time that was sufficient for most measurement but as we develop more sophisticated tools we need more sophisticated measurements ones that were precise that could be calibrated so that parts assembled in many different parts of the world would work together harmoniously

Measuring immeasurable...

 they are there but it doesn't stop awesome looking at the problems that we also have as represented by perhaps an analog he posed you know this this conference was designed to be about builders truth truth sales and catalysts there's been some very strident critique

Embracing the challenges...

 that what happens that Islamism grows as an ideology which is authoritarian which is quite strident which is quite anti Western and which wants to shape society based on an utopian vision so Islamism is the problematic idea that that really

Faith versus tradition...

 We formed you, says the Quran, into tribes and nations so that you may know one another. And this, again -- this universal outreach -- is getting subdued in the strident use of religion -- abuse of religion -- for nefarious gains.

Karen Armstrong: 2008...

 it could adversely affect the chances of peace and I hope that we will be able to move forward so it is a systematic process rather than a sudden process many Afghans I believe including you I reject the Taliban strident

A vision for the future...

 And in place of that, what happens is that Islamism grows as an ideology which is authoritarian, which is quite strident, which is quite anti-Western, and which wants to shape society based on a utopian vision.

Mustafa Akyol: Faith...

 And I'm pretty sure that those European intellectuals who cast aspersions on our history, they knew fundamentally about our traditions. And today, as strident forces like Ansar Dine and Boko Haram

The powerful stories...

 she thought I was a little strident. No one's ever said that before. She wasn't going to vaccinate her kid against polio, no way. Fine. Why? Because we don't have polio. And you know what?

 In the first half of the 19th century, he was the most strident articulator, to use his words, of slavery as a positive good. And he rooted that view that slavery