Sentence examples for nothing strained from inspiring English sources
Nothing strained; nothing was overdone.
There's nothing strained about his cooking; he has a light, insouciant touch to go with his evident earnestness.
There's nothing strained about Bock's new play, "A Life" (at Playwrights Horizons); it has the rightness and the finality of a poem by the gay Alexandria-born master C. P. Cavafy.
Nothing strains credulity more than some people's claim that they like going to hear poets read their work -- unless it's the belief of poetry-series programmers who claim that ever more such performances are needed to attract the audiences that will keep poetry alive.
But the "Pennsy" started with nothing, and strained its budget just buying the dozens of properties it needed between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, from 31st to 33rd Street.
The English keeper David James, not known as Calamity James for nothing, once strained his back while reaching for the television remote control.
Of course, all of this means nothing if the Leafs lose steam and fall flat in March and April like they did last season -- but as an optimist I am going to chalk that up to the Olympics and the Winter Classic -- the Leafs should have nothing to strain their focus this season.
Nothing here to strain the intellect, and one can make a safe prophecy that the work will soon be in the repertory of symphony orchestras all over the country.
At the same time, because these strictures cut against personal anecdote or casual comment, they sometimes fostered a false solemnity, to say nothing of a straining to end many columns on a note of Olympian impartiality too often verging on "Time will tell".
Nothing short of being continually strained up to the full extent of my mental and physical capacities will satisfy me at all".
