Sentence examples similar to strained adaptation from inspiring English sources

Forced adaptation is better than no adaptation.

Or at least it did until I saw Emilia Clarke's strained Holly Golightly in the numbing stage adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" the other night.

(The author, of course, was hardly alone among his peer group in a strained relationship with Hollywood. Hemingway made money but disliked the adaptations made of his work.

No more strained pulp!

Has this strained relations?

That seems a strained construction.

This reading is most strained.

She gives a strained laugh.

A strained relationship existed betw.

Parker has a strained hamstring.

He has a strained groin.