Sentence examples for seemed stretched thin from inspiring English sources
The rich suppleness of Mr. Brown's West-African-based movement registered, as did the profundity in the work's confrontation of life force and mortality, yet its group patterning seemed stretched thin.
At a performance on April 12, David Daniels in the title role seemed stretched a bit thin vocally at times, but the other countertenors in the cast provided great singing.
The old chestnut that money exchanged is for time and companionship only and that anything else that occurs is between two consenting adults of legal age seems stretched particularly thin here.
If Uslé's approach seems stretched a bit thin, his reliably exquisite effects — like the thin veils of jewel-tone pigment combed into agatelike patterns in "La Cámara Oculta" — redeem it.
Similarly, Kuttner's historical contrasts seem stretched.
Now more than ever it seems budgets of colleges and universities in America are stretched thin.
Government forces in Darfur are stretched thin these days, but beyond that, they seem to be living up to their history as some of the worst perpetrators.
Their personal choices seem to leave them satisfied, but when we try to emulate the Smiths' behavior, we're miserable-feeling stretched thin, tapped out and emotionally unfulfilled.
And resources were stretched thin.
