21. If Beijing University's students show any stridency , it is a nationalism tinged with chauvinism. 22. But it avoids any stridency and an underlying, alienating core of class-loathing and disrespect. 23. And I think the popularity is also a reaction to the over stridency of the health wing. 24. Some say Marshall's stridency kept the whole issue controversial longer than it needed to be. 25. Despite the size of the rally and the stridency of the speeches, Hamas was treading carefully. 26. So is the stridency about hijab, a position which could have been stated in milder terms. 27. That kind of desperation, that kind of stridency , that kind of distortion happens when you panic. 28. But repeated violence in the Middle East makes the stridency of some of the militant Islamic sites unsettling. 29. But even some political analysts who support Anwar said they were troubled by the stridency of the speech. 30. Giuliani, and by extension the national party, have something to gain by Kelly's stridency .