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–adjective 

1. making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident [insects]; strident [hinges]. (鉸鏈)

2. having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his [writings]. 

3. Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates. 



sibilants

【語】發絲音的 

labiodental 

【語】唇齒音的

uvular

【語】小舌音的

affricate

【語】破擦音





　

The birth of a baby triggers the tale. 



Mom and Dad are both severely stressed—she's a neurotic harridan, he's a happy-go-lucky hysteric. These parents are like kids themselves, while their nine-year-old son Joshua is a parody adult—stiff, unsmiling, always dressed in his private-school blazer and tie, curiously morbid, and alienated to the point of autism. 



"Do you ever feel weird, Dad?" he asks. "How do you feel about your weird son?" Weirdness is compounded by the supporting in-laws: Mom's bizarrely cheerful gay brother (Dallas Roberts) and Dad's stridently born-again mother (Celia Weston).





see stride creak



strident strident [insects] [hinges], a strident tone in his [writings] 

screech the screech of [owls] [brakes], disagreeable, lack of dignity

squeal 



latch fricative harridan