Sentence examples for strained about from inspiring English sources

But, for all the high spirits at Gaultier, there was something a little sad and just a bit strained about the spectacle.

Makes 1 jar 10 egg yolks 150g passion fruit juice, strained (about 10 fruit) 200g caster sugar ⅛ tsp fine sea salt 150g unsalted butter, cut into 1cm dice 1 Combine the egg yolks, passion fruit juice, sugar and salt in a heavy-based saucepan.

There's nothing affected or strained about him.

– but there's too often something anxious and strained about ambitious cooking.

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.

In both influenza A and C virus threshold pH values that initiate membrane fusion differ from strain to strain by about 0.7 pH units.

"We should no longer buy the statistically strained arguments about [free trade policies] delivering growth and jobs.

B. parapertussis ov Bpp5 strain has about 150 strain-specific gene families comprised mostly of hypothetical proteins, phage-related proteins, and putative secreted proteins.

This strain is about equal to the strain amplitude for the onset of nonlinearity in oscillatory shear experiments.

The networks were strained but just about coping.