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Bars beckon along our path of modern-day “riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding,” and we dance our way in and out of a few joints, looking for the right madness.

Finally, India’s jingoistic domestic discourse on Pakistan, exemplified by a shrill media that struggles to separate fact from fantasy, has made it easier for Washington to ignore legitimate Indian concerns about the Islamic Republic.

“I know James isn’t going to take the impression in a more self-righteous or shrill direction,” he says—not because “SNL” is playing things safe, but because the bit simply wouldn’t be as funny.

Thatcher was seen as "strange and shrill" when she got the job, but became the party's most successful boss of modern times.

Along a line of wooden power poles running to the horizon in both directions, 14 miles from the nearest paved road, a solitary pay phone beckons with the shrill sound of impatient civilization.