Sentence examples for full of strained from inspiring English sources

Focusing on the life of a Texan family, Terrence Malick's film is full of strained dinner scenes.

His sexual history is recounted not as a comic picaresque but as a pompous lecture, full of strained aphorisms ("It isn't love that's blind, it's alcohol"; "Chatter is the cheapest contraceptive") and meandering vignettes about mismatched desire.

"Mable" is full of songs about strained relationships, not all of them necessarily romantic — it is possible that Graham's most traumatic breakup, and reconciliation, was with his band.

Following Ref. [10], we have recently extended the capabilities of NT-AFM to quantitatively determine the full 3D composition profiles of strained SiGe islands [11].

We learn of a harsh and strained world full of precise, practiced brutality, huge numbers of unreported, sanctioned murders and merciless emotional coldness, the taking out of "targets" that seem to replicate and replace themselves like a demonic video game army.

That's money that could be put to good use in these times of strained budgets.

They may have been in deep space, but life aboard Red Dwarf was full of your standard sitcom fare, from strained relationships to characters who never moved on.

It was a time of strained relations.

The Fed report also found other signs of strained progress.

Robert D. Blackwill, the new American ambassador to India, today offered the fullest description yet of the Bush administration's drive to turn India and the United States into "fast friends and international partners" after decades of strained relations.

But he should beware of strained facial expressions.