A deep strain of ambivalence runs through this book.

A strong strain of political protest runs throughout.

This strain of nationalism runs across the spectrum of Serbian politics.

A strong strain of social concern runs through the work.

If the subsidiary characters are somewhat better cast, a strain of woodenness runs through all the acting.

When the strain runs thin they breed them in the bush with the wild, and they're bitter fighters.

Others put it less strongly, but the same strain runs through many of the memoirs.

The Harakamian strain runs true in him, at least.

By this time it must know that the strain runs true.

She was probably wondering just how deep this strain of family madness ran.