Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limb in its quest for radical gestures that it will have difficulty regaining its poise. I am ready to help and I have proved it. Other politicians, I hope, will follow suit and give up the prevalent practice of scoring cheap points by blind, strident radicalism...
...players supporting Richard vary widely in quality. The Lady Anne of Denise Bessette is strident and amateurish. Georgine Hall's Duchess of York is only adequate, but Robin Bartlett's Queen Elizabeth is clear and convincing work...
Reagan managed to make all his usual criticisms of Jimmy Carter, liberalism and the welfare state without being shrill or strident. There was scarcely an echo of Barry Goldwater's like-it-or-lump-it 1964 campaign oratory, though many of the ideas were the same. He was pungent without being pugnacious. Big Government, he warned, is "never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us ... High taxes, we are told, are somehow good for us, as if, when Government spends our money...
...Reagan has done much to set the unifying tone. Gone is the strident rhetoric of the past. Now he talks expansively of bringing people together. He told TIME, "People should properly look at a political party not as a club or a religion, but as a means for uniting people with a common viewpoint about how the Government should be run. I don't ask for written-in-blood pledges. I am arguing that the Republican Party comes closest today to representing what the majority of the people in this country want...
...this is the path to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, then the road must be perilously paved. If moderates must resort to strident speeches to appease the party, then the party may push itself too far right to appease the nation. If party homogeneity is necessary to subvert the tyranny of manifold conflicting interest groups, then the political process needs a doctor...