Sentence examples for feel strained. from inspiring English sources

And soon political parody began to feel strained, too.

The engine doesn't feel strained even when climbing hills with a full load of Presbyterians.

While such places often feel strained or touristy, this didn't, perhaps because the guides live in the village.

Just as strikingly, "Black Radio" is the rare album of its kind that doesn't feel strained by compromise or plagued by problems of translation.

The novel's frequent chronological shifts feel strained and jarring, but the narrative effectively dramatizes the tensions between family and career, perfectionism and compromise.

But the attempts to interpret this story in light of the characters' difficulties feel strained and the redemptive lunar imagery is as heavy-handed as the larkiness and lavatory jokes.

At breakfast the next day, Christmas morning, I felt strained and tight.

Where the album has swells and ebbs like a jam session, the show felt strained and limp.

Yet while the evening features four actresses -- Ms. Parker, Kristine Nielsen, Amy Sedaris and Marylouise Burke -- who are experts in making loopiness seem logical, the play's wackiness mostly feels strained and imposed.

In her earlier novels the poetry sometimes felt strained, overcooked, but here she finds a new restraint that not only intensifies the beauty of her language but feels truer and more profound.

He later went on to criticize the storyline between McPhee and Hilty, believing that Hilty was "obviously superior" to McPhee and that the storyline felt "strained".