Sentence examples for characters strain from inspiring English sources

Hadley's characters strain for significance: given her talent for bathos, we should be glad that they are denied.

As hindsight has revealed, the half-heard signals that the play's characters strain to decipher in the distance were intimations of the Russian Revolution soon to come.

Neilson's production is a historical pageant, a series of melodramatic tableaux vivants whose characters strain to animate Beaton's information-packed dialogue.

As the characters strain to become themselves – revealing their needs, aches and humiliations – what emerges is a show that seems perfectly and painfully contemporary.

Alongside this, the characters strain for success for its own sake and live in a world of advanced silliness -- of $1,200 Japanese lunches for three, $250,000 watches and a religion called Eckankar -- never recognizing its effects.

The other characters strain to catch his mumbling drift, as does the audience, and you begin to wonder if he is making sport of those rusty Cockney voices that left American ears bleeding in the wake of "Lock, Stock".

In Sharafeddine's simply told tale, the drama of civil war takes a back seat to that of young characters straining against rigid expectations.

If this detail, which is the novel's setup, rings a bit false, then in its way it works perfectly: much of this overlong, sloppy, yet energetic novel feels the same, with events and characters straining to serve the larger plot and the author's famously biting sense of humor.

The play's first run in 2010, in the runup to the general election, was a sell-out, but there was a mixed critical reaction, and suggestions that it was too obvious and that the nastiness of its characters strained plausibility.

Monroe has been retired since the seventh season because voicing the character strained Shearer's throat.

The main plot, however, becomes overwrought as it reaches its climax, and his prose and characters sometimes strain under the weight they are required to bear: the morally reprehensible Ritchie is something of a straw man.