Sentence examples for straining to be from inspiring English sources

"He's straining to be serious," Tony Travers told me.

That, say economists straining to be heard, is stimulus.

All the stories are straining to be transgressive.

But now every cruise line is straining to be more health-conscious than the next.

Perahia was able to summon up all his usual refinement without ever straining to be heard.

Sometimes, it's true, you can sense him straining to be pleasant.

Scalia spent most of his dissent attacking Kennedy's opinion; he referred to its "mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages".

Foals make hard, trebly, uncomfortable, spiky, anxious, uptight, straining-to-be-different music, and for all that, it's rather good.

JJ is a slightly straining-to-be-American American, and Maureen is a heart-rending misfit with only a chronically disabled son for company.

Justice Antonin Scalia, well-known for his vitriolic dissents, called the opinion "a judicial Putsch," "pretentious," "egotistic," "silly," and filled with "straining-to-be-memorable passages".

Insisting his concern was not the merit or lack thereof of gay marriage, he wrote that the majority's "pretentious" and "egotistic" opinion lacked "even a thin veneer of law" and was chock full of "mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages".