"Strain for effect" nghĩa là gì?

"Strain for effect" -> nghĩa là cố gắng tạo ra hiệu ứng kịch tính hoặc đầy tính nghệ thuật trong bài phát biểu, buổi biểu diễn, bài viết, v.v...

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This speculative dystopia (sự lạc chỗ) may strain for effect but is carried through by sheer energy and verve (cảm hứng).

The book is competently done, with a direct style that doesn't strain for effect and a moral frankness and freedom from sentimentality (tính đa cảm).

Those performances help make up for the limitations of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez’s songs, many of them reprised from the film. Lyrics such as “love is an open door” sound a bit trite the second time around. And the synth-heavy music has a boisterous (dữ dội, náo nhiệt), schmaltzy (ủy mị quá đáng) air that often seems to strain for effect.

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