overstretch

1 As a result, “Bright Colors and Bold Patterns” too often feels like a single overstretched idea.

2 For those who have the money, there have been reports of bribes to jump the line in these overstretched hospitals.

3 Starbucks has taken steps to address workers’ complaints about being overstretched in stores.

4 They also say that health inspectors, already overstretched from having to verify hygiene in restaurant kitchens, will struggle to enforce the new rules without new staff.

5 He joked: “You’d really be doing the overstretched investigators a solid.”

6 Intense pressures on the already overstretched NHS are being exacerbated by the tens of thousands of health staff who are sick with long Covid, doctors and hospital bosses say.

7 It has led some commentators to suggest that in this instance he overstretched himself, that he became prolix or, more charitably, that Beware of Pity is actually two novellas of unequal length stitched together.

8 It also “proved to be his undoing” because it “led him to overstretch himself.”

9 Such is almost but not quite the case with “The Theory of Everything,” a sweet, restrained and overstretched film about the unusual relationship between physicist Stephen Hawking and his former wife, Jane.

10 From another it seems overstretched, ludicrously conjectural, pointlessly elaborate and interesting only as an oddity.

11 O.K., overstretched metaphor alert: The “neighbor” is us.

12 “Nice job, I hope? Pleasant? Easy? Sort of thing you’d expect an unqualified wizard kid to be able to do without overstretching themselves?”

13 These cuts had left trust and safety teams overstretched, two of these senior sources say.

14 Kennedy cautioned that the United States ran the risk of “imperial overstretch,” which he defined not just in terms of military commitments, but in regard to the balance between resources and obligations.

15 The dramatic material is slightly overstretched in places, but Ives creates the stunning effect of a hall of mirrors.

16 For Mark Volpe, the Boston Symphony’s managing director, what might seem an overstretching of responsibilities is in fact a necessary restraint.

17 Its young clients will be diverted to already overstretched youth mental health services.

18 Pregnancy and childbirth. This can sometimes overstretch and strain your muscles.

妊娠和分娩。这有时过度扩张和应变你的肌肉。

19 For some theatergoers, though, Nelson’s extreme discursiveness will feel overstretched; how long do you want to stare at even the loveliest, most industrious ants digging their way through the sand of an ant farm?

20 This will overstretch the prison service's resources.

这将使监狱的资源不堪负荷。

1 过分扩展

overstretched

2 跨越

stride bridge span

3 夸张

tatty-peelin tall romantic steep colored heroic theatrical sounding swollen flaming rhetorical inflated resounding superlative operatic overblown melodramatic overdrawn overdone stilted hammy sonorous turgid rhapsodic tumescent grandiloquent fustian spread-eagle highfalutin plethoric magnific Ossianic tumid mouth-filling high-colored largely turgescence stretch tumor inflation romance exaggeration hyperbole puffiness grandiloquence turgidity tympany magniloquence tumidity ham hyperbolize exaggerate overreach build distend overpitch extend enhance amplify magnify heighten overdo overstate overcharge overdraw overpaint theatricalize strong put it come out strong pile it on put it on overdo it

4 过度伸展

hyperextend hyperextension

5 勉强维持

hardscrabble

6 过度伸张

overextended overstrain