Sentence examples for As braced from inspiring English sources

I arrived at the Walter Kerr as braced for disappointment as any of Chekhov's inveterate losers.

Columns sheathed with oriented strand board on both flanges behave as braced against global buckling in the plane of the wall, and local buckling induced failures prevail.

It was also determined that for the level of factored axial loads found in practice, plumb piles supporting finger piers and wharves could commonly be considered as braced even if the supporting soil is relatively soft.

OVER a bustling stretch of Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the words on the faded marquee are as bracing as ever.

This new compliation parody is about as bracing as the prime minister's recent reception in The Washington Post.

Yellowtail is buttery, while mackerel is as bracing as an ocean wind, and octopus and giant clam are appropriately chewy.

His book — argumentative, gallant, parked athwart oncoming historical traffic, as if on a dare — is as Parisian and as bracing as a freshly mixed Pernod and water.

FEW sticker shocks are as bracing as the price of hiring someone to help with the simplest activities — bathing, toilet use, dressing, eating and moving.

The formality is as bracing as the distortions, but Tanowitz doesn't quite sustain the mood or the pitch of invention.

When an unexpected reprieve appears, it's as bracing as a splash of ice water, a reminder of how arbitrary and brutal the system can be.

Italy isn't exactly known for its sauvignon blanc, but this is minerallic, sculpted, streamlined, herbaceous, and as bracing as the mountain air in which it's grown.