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• The daylight hallucinations of Mr.Darko strike a chord with someone who has drank a skinful the night before and is shivering in the post booze darkness.
• Many of the things she says will strike a chord with other young women.
• There's a disarming honesty to the film and a familiarity to the themes that will strike a chord with most women. Times, Sunday Times
• Still, fanaticism doesn't strike a chord with the majority of the region's Muslims.
• A Munich-based clothing company is hoping its high-tech lederhosen - traditional Bavarian leather shorts with braces - will strike a chord with cutting-edge German yodelers.
• Publishers and novelists believe what has been dubbed "recessionista fiction" will strike a chord with readers who have run out of sympathy with the shopaholics of previous best-sellers.
• If that cover doesn't strike a chord then the first few pages of this amazing book most certainly will, and me and Andrew Marr (his Introduction that Stewart cleverly spotted is actually an Afterword) are both in snivelling uncontrollable 1950's (me 1953, he 1959) children's tears over it all, our hankies are wringing. 45 entries from March 2008
• But the design has been brought bang up-to-date to strike a chord with modern riders and classic buffs alike.
• Brown's comments will strike a chord with those who feel that selfish interests and private agendas are being put ahead of the greater good of the game in Scotland and Holland.
• Described in the press notes as ‘a love story in a minor key,’ this will certainly strike a chord with fans of character drama.