unrelaxed

Example Sentences

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In a two-star review, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the "slapstick apocalypse" feature as "laboured, self-conscious and unrelaxed", as well as lacking in real comedy.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2021

“If you’re asking unstretched, unrelaxed muscles to hold still, you’re immediately going to start shaking and they are going to tense.”

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2017

He looks stiff and unrelaxed, clenching his hands together in a poor impression of a statesman.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2014

There is too much pressure to come across as blissfully relaxed and confident—happy, successful, well-adjusted—during the culmination of a very unrelaxed engagement and wedding-planning process.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2014

"Tu as �t� tr�s m�chante," exclaimed the new-comer, remaining stationary, but following with a turn of the head and unrelaxed finger this tragic departure.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar