Sentence examples for was always strained from inspiring English sources

Tolerance was always strained.

Yet his relationship with Longson was always strained.

Now I recognize as heroic Guston's surrender of a lifelong yearning for august refinement, which was always strained and tinged with falseness, coming from a tragic junkman's son.

In human terms, their relationship was always strained (Olivier was, he says, "a strangely hidden man"); not so with Mr. Gielgud, whom he admires for his "intuitive sense of quality," a trait that Mr. Gielgud shares with Mr. Brook.

His mother was a distant figure, and their relationship was always strained.

"I was always straining, without having a cold or anything, and I could feel my voice when I was speaking.

Although he worked tirelessly for the passage of new laws, he himself was always straining toward something just beyond the grasp of the law: social, political, and economic equality to be sure, but also genuine friendship within a common life.

Relations with Zanzibar, which had united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania with Nyerere as president, were always strained.

Metaphors are always strained when taken literally.

The Jain will not use an open light nor leave a container of liquid uncovered lest a stray insect be destroyed; even with this precaution, liquids are always strained before use.

Leo's relations with his father Basil were always strained, and when Theophano informed him of this affair, Basil reportedly became enraged, beat Leo until he bled, and married Zoe off to one Theodore Gouzouniates.