Sentence examples similar to sense being stretched from inspiring English sources
A utopian scenario would be to make pitches bigger: when Barcelona play at their incredibly vast Nou Camp, there is a wonderful sense of defenders perpetually being stretched to breaking point that goes beyond the obvious quality of Barca's attacking players.
His sense of humor is apparently intact, though it is being stretched to the limit.
Rules are being stretched.
But my sense of humor was stretched a little too far when he thought living on an island with a fur seal colony and penguins for company was the ideal of the glam life.
For me, that is what travel is about - stripping off the layers of normal life and being immersed in another way of being, stretching the senses and sensibilities so that, on return, normal life is enriched, or as Chesterton remarked: "... the object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land".
The reason people are getting angry – and occupying symbols of capitalism all over the world – is that our sense of solidarity has been stretched way beyond its limit.
In this role I've seen how people's sense of fairness has been stretched to the limits by the continued spectacle of huge pay increases and bonuses in big companies while ordinary people suffer.
By the early 1990s, though, there was a sense within BVR that the technology could be stretched further.
Public services are stretched.
Equity values are stretched.
