strident

But beyond the strident rhetoric lies a good story about race, power and the exploitation of gridiron heroes.

However, since its conference last month, ministers have been increasingly strident in making such arguments.

And definitely not from Barrios, whose demeanor is usually more baseball mom than strident activist.

Having grown up in a deeply evangelical community where strident gender roles managed to scrub the fun out of almost everything, I’d never been particularly invested in looking domestic, per se.

In a lively debate there were some strident voices arguing that the next Holyrood election should be used as a substitute referendum.