Sentence examples for too strained from inspiring English sources

His brilliant rhetoric comes close to making the poem a success, but it is too strained and monochromatic.

Like so much of the book, it feels a little too strained and not quite sharp enough.

While he said the government's budget was too strained to raise wages, he proposed revamping Romania's socialized medical system so that patients took on a greater burden of the costs.

(And because you're cheap. It takes money to make money, bro!) Prof. Duncan noted that the groups' "beady little eyes were too strained to use a computer screen.

This may be less of an issue for Oxfam, which has unabashedly positioned itself as a "moderate": "hard hitting enough to convey urgency so supporters will act while at the same time not so aggressive that relations with a company become too strained".

The use of five equivalents each of LHMDS and MeI gave mainly starting material alongside small quantities of the C-methylated β-lactam 59, which suggests that deprotonation occurs but presumably the α,β-unsaturated β-lactam is too strained to form.

Ingrid Craigie fares best as the virtuous, haunted Lia, but both she and Mark Lambert as Nick give us too much strained surface and not enough of the turmoil underneath.

Pitcher Victor Zambrano is there, too, with a strained right elbow.

Still, by the end of Mr Chen's term, relations with the United States, Taiwan's protector, were badly strained, too.

Looking down, he rushed a heavily scripted first answer, told through the filter of Clinton's point of view, that took too long and strained to connect back to the question.

Mr. Coble's conceit — the feisty old lady as urban terrorist — may sound a little strained and too whimsical by half.