sinew

Lois is a walking TV trope made tolerable solely by the muscle and sinew of Nash-Betts’ performance: another gifted detective who has seen too much and self-medicates with gallons of vodka.

Ngannou's legs folded underneath him, more than 19 stone of bone, sinew and muscle going limp.

He said the UK had been "straining every sinew" to get aid into Gaza and that it "must be flooded in".

"We are straining every sinew to accelerate safely what we have to do to stop the leak, and the best way to do that is to remove the waste safely," he said.

Writing Molly’s death and its aftermath, Butler is not afraid of its sinews and gore.