Sentence examples for collapsing relationship from inspiring English sources

"Wreck You," written by the vivid alt-country singer Lori McKenna and Felix McTeigue, neatly sketches one side of a collapsing relationship.

General McCaffrey said that given the "collapsing" relationship with Haitian law enforcement agencies, the United States was focusing on the drugs after they leave Haiti and reach the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.

This was articulation of an inner pain to rival that of her idols – from Billie Holliday to Sam Cooke – sang with an authentic soul voice that had the strife of a collapsing relationship etched across it.

There are a few brief glimmers of light illuminating the gloom, notably the children's choir adding fragile hope to the refrain of "Like Kids" – though even here it's a delusional attempt to shore up a collapsing relationship with fantasies of childlike freedom.

Why else would he be singing the hook on the new DJ Khaled single ("Fed Up")? "Papers," about a collapsing relationship ("I know it's you I love/but then I also know it's you I don't like") was the first salvo from "Raymond v. Raymond" (LaFace/Jive), Usher's forthcoming sixth studio album, though following the play-by-play detail of "Confessions" it verged on self-parody.

But Homegrown is dark, too, albeit in a more low-key, reflective gear, as many of its songs deal with his collapsing relationship with then-wife Carrie Snodgress.

Inside, there are songs about collapsing relationships.

Akhavan is Shirin, perennially rebounding from her collapsing relationships, while perpetually unable to tell her Iranian family that she is "a little bit gay".

On songs almost monomaniacally focused on the sharp edges of collapsing relationships — the word "war" pops up with alarming regularity — Gareth's jumpy vocals interwove with the winsome voice of Aleksandra, the keyboardist.

"I've had to walk away from plays in development where I haven't felt it was my right to ask the writer to write differently, and it has almost collapsed my relationship with opera," she says.

The central irony of the piece is that it is a memory of a relationship collapsing in part because of an inability to let go of a past relationship.