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Unstrained

adjective

Not placed under psychological stress.

Not resulting from undue effort; not forced. Synonym: unforced. "His playing is facile and unstrained"

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"Unstrained" Quotes from Famous Books

... tears? Is it a flower, so tender that it must perish miserably in the frosty rime of earliest winter? Is love the accident of youth, the complement of a fresh complexion, the corollary of a light step, the physical concomitant of swelling pulses and unstrained sinews?" ...

— The Witch of Prague • F. Marion Crawford

... their own wit than of what they observe, sometimes gain a little reputation. Even the coxcombs, self-duping knaves, simpletons, braggarts, and other evil or pitiful types whom he selects, are drawn with unstrained and simple conformity to reality. The pictures have no moral label pinned on to them. Yet Vauvenargues took life seriously enough, and it was just because he took it seriously, that he had no inclination to air his wit or practise a verbal humour upon the stuff ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) - Essay 1: Vauvenargues • John Morley

... sunlight, the tall grey-clad figure possessed all its accustomed, slightly arrogant repose. Damaris thrilled with exalted hope. For the young are slow to admit even the verdict of fact as final. His attitude was so natural, so unstrained and unstudied, that the message of ghostly warning yesterday evening was surely discounted; while the subsequent terror of the night, that hideous battle with pain and suffocation, became to her incredible, an evil dream from which, in grateful ...

— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

Words linked to "Unstrained" : effortless, unforced, relaxed