Sentence examples for kind of strained from inspiring English sources
More often, though, the writing is the kind of strained pulp — "This don't concern you, Sugar".
Unfortunately, it's also maddeningly repetitive, and dependent on the kind of strained English whimsy that leaves your throat sore from laughter that dies in the glottal region.
There's a pleasing rhythmic relationship between the titles Gomorrah and Godzilla (Warner, 12), and while one could forge some kind of strained metaphor of urban destruction to link them, I'd best leave the segue there.
Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany star as Conrad and Ellie Cain, a high-wire financier and his socialite wife who maintain the kind of strained civility that only money can buy.
And while the play is a reminder of how a state can fall apart when its head loses his head, its subplots of civil war and betrayal can seem kind of strained and pulpy unless you have a solar Lear at their center, casting intense light and shadow.
The cum side feels kind of strained, like the way you feel when you've been in salt water for too long.
Natasha and Daniel both have sort of strained relationships with their fathers.
Only one – Captain McKechnie – seems positively certifiable, but for most, "normality" means a kind of nerve-strained semi-madness.
The traditional definitions and approaches to understanding the nature of privacy, anonymity, and precisely what kind of information deserves protection becomes strained, forcing researchers and REBs to consider more nuanced theories of privacy (Nissenbaum 2009) and approaches to respecting and projecting subject privacy (Markham 2012; Zimmer 2010).
Cap'n Jazz come from a completely different tradition, of American punk and hardcore, and their take on the love song is shambolic, strained, articulate but kind of spazzy, and I love that.
Over all, the big accounting firms, law firms and banks that designed and sold what the tax expert Lee Sheppard calls "off the rack" or "ready-to-wear" shelters are not offering any kind of marketed product, risky strategy or strained legal opinion.
