The phrase "and trying to express" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to communicate thoughts, feelings, or ideas.
Example: "I find myself often lost in thought and trying to express my emotions through art."
Alternatives: "and attempting to convey" or "and seeking to communicate".
It's been more of an artistic exploration, discovering what materials have to offer, and trying to express that".
Silences drew on her experience of raising four daughters, while earning a living, continuing her political activity, and trying to express her developing vision of life in the form of fiction.
Echols' venture into art began as a therapeutic process during his time behind bars, "When I was in prison, it almost sounds crazy to say, but I would get so immersed in creating art and trying to express certain things, that there were times when I almost wouldn't see the prison walls for days at a time because I was so turned inwards," he says.
You can portray people talking and trying to express a message.
Some people may have a language problem: they may be thinking in their mother language, say Mandarin or Punjabi, and trying to express their ideas in a language they are not comfortable with, say English.
In this study, we chose E. coli as an expression host and tried to express ABF-2 as an inclusion body in E. coli.
After three minutes, have them switch to the next person and try to express their main points in two minutes.
I think that the whole way of life in Scandinavia encourages people to be individualist and try to express themselves in their dress and actions.
It's a very political song and tries to express the anger a lot of people felt about how they were portrayed in Indian cinema and the issue of the Marda dam.
It's what I pursue and try to express as much as I can in a drawing, so that any slight detail is relevant, a piece that can contain the whole story, and tells you something that it's not only fun but real, just like in writing, and this what I found in Tom Wolfe, a master of the genre one wants to emulate.
The main difference being that "[w]here formally they spoke to others and tried to interpret," the experiences of African-Americans for white or other nonblack audiences "they now speak to their own and try to express".
