unrelaxed

Example Sentences

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Particularly confounding is an unrelaxed and excitable Sixth that hardly lives up to the symphony’s nickname as the “Pastoral.”

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

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

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

One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft