Sentence examples for are trying to please from inspiring English sources

I mention something that the actor Simon Russell Beale once said to me, that all performers are trying to please either their mother or their father.

Government officials bristle at the suggestion that they are trying to please the Americans, saying Lebanon has worked hard to oppose terrorists.

But it has also changed frequent flier programs into more complex businesses, where fliers are just one of the constituencies carriers are trying to please.

Mr. Terekhov said he viewed this — and many of the initiatives pushed through the legislature last year — as an improvisation by politicians who are trying to please Mr. Putin.

Jefferson added: "Now they are trying to please everybody and you can't.

But when we are trying to please others, we are usually out of sync with our own wants and needs.

"He's trying to please his party.

They're trying to please advertisers and win Pulitzer Prizes.

He's trying to please a demographic that ignores him.

Everyone is trying to please everyone else nowadays".

They should've been trying to please the fans".