Sentence examples for standoff feels from inspiring English sources

-- Burns, Ore .— the town of near the armed standoff — feels the strain.

In another standoff that felt like a win, challenger Ray Grabinski celebrated well into the night after serving notice to Sato, an easy winner in three previous races, that she would not coast through this election.

Sharper dialogue would have helped in the standoff scene – it felt off that they would just surrender their weapons so quickly to a group of toughs who had just apparently garroted a few escape pod survivors.

(Much dime-store psychology must be spoken by the appealing Ms. Kull, who does what she can to muffle its creaks). Even the climactic standoff between Basil and Gregor feels dictated by a yellowing textbook diagram from another age.

Each heavily layered, extensively reworked picture feels like a hard-fought standoff between forces of order and chaos.

"We'll see," Pelosi said when asked if she feels like she won the standoff with Trump.

The standoff is resolved only at the finale, which feels — and almost sounds — Shakespearean.

Despite runs on the Fox series "Standoff" and the AMC hit " Mad Men," however, the theater veteran feels she's still learning her on-screen craft.

The effect of the standoff has been deeply felt in rural states like Nebraska.

Some experts feel the standoff won't have a lasting effect on the market or the economy, with government employees resuming their spending as soon as they are paid for their work in January.

Come to think of it, it probably feels a bit like being a superpower engaged in a tense standoff with a similarly powerful but ideologically opposing hegemon".