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.
Complainants appear to strive for alterations in the hospital.
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".
Optional striving appears to be a category that includes everything save writing, exercise, sleep, and solitude.
In earlier times, a sincere person was seen as someone who honestly attempts to neither violate the expectations that follow from the position he holds in society, nor to strive to appear otherwise than he ought to.
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].
