Sentence examples for amount of straining from inspiring English sources

She seemed not to grasp what it was until her deafness was final, and no amount of straining or interpretation would bring sound, much less words, to her ears.

But it's hard to spot much of it in this ineptly put-together book… no amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey".

In the Observer Julie Myerson wrote that she was bored by it, calling it "a Harry Potter tribute novel" and the Sunday Times' Peter Kemp wrote: "No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey".

While the New York Times described it as "a novel that pulls together all [Tartt's] remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading", in the UK, the Sunday Times found that "no amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey".

Among them was Peter Kemp in the Sunday Times: "Tartt seems to be aiming in The Goldfinch to emulate the breadth of 19th-century fiction … But while the social range is wide, there's no matching depth … Stupefyingly long stretches of near inertness … are interspersed with frenetic bursts of mayhem … no amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey".

After the substantial amounts of straining required to refine the layers to nanoscale dimensions, formation of highly oriented Zr crystals was observed.

In comparison, the silver electrodes formed on not pre-strained PDMS became insulating under a very small amount of strain because of the formed micro-cracking of the silver film as a result of the applied stress.

"He's under a tremendous amount of strain".

People generally only come to real compromise from a certain amount of strain and tension.

When these locked areas, or asperities, accumulate a critical amount of strain, they break apart, resulting in an earthquake.

But the dual role places an huge amount of strain on a single performer, however natural he makes it appear.