Sentence examples for were slackened from inspiring English sources

During the war years, restrictions on style and the demand that composers should write in a 'socialist realist' style were slackened, and Prokofiev was generally able to compose in his own way.

When Justin Timberlake threw a hastily-assembled bone towards his ex-NSYNC bandmates at last year's VMAs, it was not the pop glory you wished for – the group were slackened in their delivery, and unable to hit their marks as dancers.

The new king, Carl XVI Gustaf, had himself married a commoner; the constitutional rules were slackening.

There, in paintings and writings and on grand estates, the Enlightenment's strict geometries were slackening.

In the Oldenburg/van Bruggen version, the rigid lines and exacting perspective of the Vermeers are slackened and skewed.

In the traditional Hawaiian slack-key style, the strings of a standard guitar are tuned down — that is, slackened.

While regulations on pokies in clubs and hotels have been slackened with little fanfare, the new wave of casino development has been more spectacular.

Although he's slackened his pace a bit, now performing just 75 to 80 concerts each year instead of 100, he'll publish his seventh book in 2008.

Like a Coach and six — the swiftest Horses, must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace".

This observation is particularly important when assuming that ligament healing will work best if its disrupted borders are slackened [20, 37, 43].

The tension between one's individual and one's social nature must not be slackened, or else the one is likely to overwhelm the other.