Sentence examples for long strain from inspiring English sources

Eve grownups break under long strain.

Ms. Turkle is gradually reduced to a long strain of binary code.

Parisians, tense and irritable after the long strain of the siege, were outraged by the action of rural France in electing a monarchist assembly committed to what they regarded as a dishonourable peace.

I'm sorry, this runs against a long strain of discussion in the social sciences noting that while blindness or amputation is fairly straightforward, a reading disability or autism is not.

The series is one of a number now on television to break with a long strain of tradition by casting ambition as something healthy, positive, redemptive and even honorable, and its absence an agent of ostentatious humiliation.

Under such long strain, resentments about intrusions, miscalculations and feckless performance make a leap to an assumption: that Americans must hate Pakistanis because they would otherwise never treat them so carelessly, speak so badly of them, or distrust them so much.

Long, strain-filled minutes pass, little or no progress is made, and the frisky, punishing waves come on and on.

Aronofsky has long strained after art of a vast mythopoetic magnitude.

The case had long strained Libya's relations with the European Union.

The theology of Hell had long strained credulity too far, even in the Middle Ages.

After each of the evening meetings, which were long, strained, and tedious, I felt the stirrings of an old childhood sense of anxiety, obscure wrongdoing, and resentment.