Modifies a noun

• stance: Per cent of and consumers in europe most strident stances.

• tone: This has a more strident tone which is softened by some fine piano work.

• critic: Spirit Ecclesiology Rayan has long been a strident critic of the Church hierarchy and an advocate of the reform of its structures and liturgy.

• voice: Perhaps its time for us to live and let live and to drown out the strident voices of the minority who find this impossible.

• statement: The World Council of Churches believes the most creative way forward is through conversations, not through strident statements.

• call: The buyers and sellers filled the air with their strident calls in a patois all of their own.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Calls for ' the rights of man ' became increasingly strident in 1790-91.

• rather: The Committee had reservations about the rather strident new Bath stone gate pillars.

• too: The last election campaign seemed to me to be too strident.

• so: Unlike most of those so strident in their campaign to'Save our Green' I own no car.

• not: Visible, but not strident, just getting on with it.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Over time, he said, he has become less strident.

• grow: Protests against the war and President Johnson himself had grown so strident by 1968 that he wisely chose not to run for reelection.

• get: As they get more strident, he digs harder.