Sentence examples for Feel strained from inspiring English sources

The climaxes feel strained.

Here, though, the links feel strained and forced.

Banks might feel strained if they have to make even 20percentt of the loans they have promised.

The litany of her wacky, tacky projects — from toilet-paper-roll cases to cakes decorated like Leonardo's "Last Supper" — can feel strained.

Berger and O'Sullivan persuade us of the Librarian's conviction that the book's owner is the biblical Wandering Jew, but references to the Holocaust feel strained.

It's so uneventful her usually enchanting asides feel strained to the breaking point: "I was right there with the numb-nose who wrote, on his answer form, 'Oh, for a piece of good bread!' " she remarks.

Don't lean so far forward that you feel strain in your back or you are uncomfortable or you are/you did lose your balance.

By contrast, "Midnight Sun" felt strained, maybe because it's too florid, lyrically and musically.

No wonder the film felt strained – it had an agenda as fraught as the AGM of a failing company.

Wolffe's narrative of tension and ineptitude sometimes feels strained, perhaps because we know Obama won handily in the end.

But the attempt to link the songs to the life feels strained, there is little of the ecstasy that drives Sunny Afternoon about Ray Davies and the Kinks.