Sentence examples for attempt to distil from inspiring English sources

Bigger than any single production, however, has been Brook's attempt to distil the essence of theatre.

Any attempt to distil essential, but non-universal, beliefs across such a huge swathe of humanity is ambitious to say the least.

The three playlists below are nothing more than a personal attempt to distil the best of that era – roughly 1988 to 91 – into an enjoyable sequence.

After every Oscar ceremony, observers traditionally attempt to distil a zeitgeisty trend from the proceedings, and the one available here would appear to be obvious.

Although the BBC director general dismissed any attempt to distil the central message of his nuanced and wide-ranging speech, it did contain an explicit statement: "A pound out of the commissioning budget of the BBC is a pound out of [the] UK creative economy.

As such, I attempt to distil our current knowledge and discuss how we might use these agents to best effect.

Attempting to distil the World of Warcraft experience into a single hero's quest is like trying to make a skirt out of France.

A book published last year ("Clausewitz on Strategy", John Wiley) attempts to distil the wisdom and logic of "On War" and to rescue its author from the reputation of being "a cold and callous prophet of total, unconditional war".

My late coming to such magic might even be explained by romance's blighting in the latter decades of the 20th century, by Hollywood scores attempting to distil the lucrative essence of the great orchestral works.

When I first attempted to distil the labyrinthine Fall canon and into a mere 10 songs I started with a list of 23 and by later the same evening had somehow "whittled it" down to double the figure.

Tim Adams, in an interview with Deller in the Observer to coincide with the Biennale, attempted to distil his work: "His skill is juxtaposition, he is a master of putting things and people next to each other, altering contexts, lighting touchpapers and standing well back.