Sentence examples for straining towards from inspiring English sources

The band have talked down Beacon as "safe", and occasionally you get the sense they are straining towards something with a little more classic-rock heft than usual.

Some think it dull, many feel like it is archaic, dealing in heightened emotions and that they must somehow emulate an ideal; this straining towards what they see as the poetic means that they end up inhabiting an abstract rather than concrete, relatable realm.

A little before midnight on a moonlit night, the solitary beam of a dog musher's head lamp danced across the dark snow and ice of the Bering Sea coast and landed on a barking, trotting, tail-wagging mass of canine excitement: a team of 11 Alaskan huskies straining towards the finish of the legendary Iditarod dog sled race.

It was a moment to garland even this preternatural athletic career, the photo-finish snapshot showing every other runner in the field leaning forward at the line, straining towards the lone upright figure out front like a beautifully constructed classical frieze.

And that even once the scale has tipped precariously towards the light, those who have known darkness will never spend a single moment without feeling their heaviness straining towards the comfort of the ground, dark and cool and restful.

From here those who come will always strain towards him, always chasing that lone upright figure out in front.

After the Vecchio viaduct - an intricate iron span designed by Gustave Eiffel - the train strained towards its highest point, the 906m Vizzavona tunnel.

If the static, declamatory choreography looks back to the populist heroics of the early Soviet era, Prokofiev's music seems to strain towards modernism, with conductor Boris Gruzin drawing a futuristic shimmer from the Orchestra of the Mariinsky theatre.

The dance LP can be a bit of a bloated format, where producers strain towards "proper artist" status when they'd be better off chucking out lean 12-inches.

It's a small slip, but hardly a minor one, since the point of quoting Donne's labouring lines is that the metre requires of a reader the kind of struggle counselled by the words, just as Stevens requires of his difficult verse that it strain towards an essential truth while holding open the possibility that such truths might remain out of reach.

He has shown faith in Jol before, even when the manager's relationship with Fulham became strained towards the end of Mohamed al-Fayed's ownership of the club.