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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

For me, Emily Blunt is out of the running for her unrelaxed performance in Mary Poppins, which though studied and stylish, comes close to how Kate McKinnon would play the role in an SNL sketch.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2019

“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

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

While they lasted it was pathetic to watch their furtive movements and unrelaxed vigilance, jealously guarding the freedom which was held under such hopeless surroundings and must cost them so dear at last.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)