The phrase "appear to strive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone or something that seems to be making an effort or attempting to achieve a goal.
Example: "The team appears to strive for excellence in every project they undertake."
Alternatives: "seem to work hard" or "look to endeavor".
Mr. Moultrie seems to know how to make handsome patterns without appearing to strive for neatness.
Appearing to strive for higher ground, Monsieur Marc replied, "I am not jealous that another man touches her".
The toy market always was a cut-throat one, manufacturers managing to target their audience with dastardly élan, and each year the emphasis appears to strive towards bigger, better, faster, more.
Moreover, in its closing pages it appears to be striving for a sweeter, more empathetic insight into boyhood than is altogether plausible, given the horror and alienation of all that has gone before.
Maybe Georgie Porgie is caught up in the spirit of the times and is keen to take a step in a new direction, with a new kind of woman who appears to be striving toward a greater good (unless she takes on the family business, that is -- and we all know what politics does to a Bhutto).
She specifically refers to commercial web sites, which at first appear to be progressive and strive for greater equality in the parental role, but which at closer inspection simply reproduce traditional gender roles and values.
Wearing my 'I'm busy' badge with pride, conforming to the conditioning of the modern world, I made it seem as though I was indispensable to so many, as I strived to appear to "have and do it all".
Teachers want to succeed in their job, just like everyone else, and the two main goals they strive to attain appear to be "mastery" (i.e. I want to succeed) and "failure avoidance" (i.e. I don't want to fail) [ 5, 24, 25].
Why does a refusal to strive for maximum success in everything appear to so many people to smack of failure?
Work too hard, strive too hard, appear to be too ambitious, try to stand out from the crowd.
