The phrase "an attempt to render" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to convey, express, or provide something, often in a creative or interpretive context.
Example: "The artist's work is an attempt to render the complexities of human emotion through abstract forms."
Alternatives: "an effort to convey" or "a try to express".
Myths of origin represent an attempt to render the universe comprehensible in human terms.
Some of you assumed my reference to the driver as a prison guard was an attempt to render him ominous.
In other words, it's as much an art film as a war film – an attempt to render the abstract into something tangible.
In an attempt to render Martyrs palatable for US audiences, directors Kevin and Michael Goetz orchestrate each act of brutality with a zippy MTV aesthetic that reduces the carnage to its constituent wounds and screams.
This was particularly true of those poems Gunn wrote occasioned by his experiences on LSD, the composition of which he described in an essay as an attempt "to render the infinite through the finite, the unstructured through the structured".
Intensive talks have continued throughout the summer between the Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, and MoJ officials in an attempt to render the changes more acceptable to the legal profession.
It cannot be considered fully accountable to any organizational device or bureaucracy, and any attempt to render it fully accountable will founder.
It came across as an offhand attempt to render the senator even less appetizing to the religious right than he already was.
What you are looking up at there (in appropriately boggled perplexity) is an architectural attempt to render just one part of the biblical prophet Ezekiel's heavenly vision.
I still can't decide if it is an ironic comment on the ubiquitous "50percentt off" signs around town, a reflection of the diverse immigrants to the Lower East Side or a shrewd attempt to render such confusion as to sell at a profit.
In all 22 artists contributed and Klimt's "Beethoven Frieze," a bold attempt to render the Ninth Symphony in visual form, became a succès de scandale, both praised and attacked as "the utmost ever achieved in the field of obscene art".
