Sentence examples for attempt to distill from inspiring English sources

(The essential ruthlessness of the meritocracy was one of the themes of my own subsequent attempt to distill the culture of elite education).

Ms. Davies's installation, "Traditions, Inventions, Exchange," a co-presentation of Danspace Project and the Baryshnikov Arts Center, where it opened on Thursday night, is an attempt to distill a portion of that artistic interplay.

When appearing in the media or before parliamentary committees, they should not attempt to distill the enormous volume and range of climate research into explicit demands for political action.

ISHERWOOD 'BELLE ÉPOQUE' The époque doesn't seem so very belle in Martha Clarke and Charles L. Mee's ambitious attempt to distill onstage the seedy, absinthe-tinted glamour that Toulouse-Lautrec captured in oils and pastels in late 19th-century Paris.

Lesser works have made that quixotic attempt at grandiose profundity, but any attempt to distill all of this into a easy-to-understand morality play with a handy message at the end would cheapen the very real events being dramatized.

ISHERWOOD Off Broadway 'BELLE ÉPOQUE' The époque doesn't seem so very belle in Martha Clarke and Charles L. Mee's ambitious attempt to distill onstage the seedy, absinthe-tinted glamour that Toulouse-Lautrec captured in oils and pastels in late 19th-century Paris.

Lim, a native of Singapore who covered the sex industry in Los Angeles for over a decade and has written several books on the subject, attempts to distill meaning from Quek's story via a number of perspectives.

Then there are the unexpected musical directions: attempts to distill difficult emotions into sound, through distortion and the strange collision of instrumentation and voice, such as the track ____45_____ in which the saxophonist Mike Lewis duets with Vernon on a saxophone vocoder.

Words always fail when grappling with the loss of an icon, and even moreso when attempting to distill a man who so readily defied easy definition.

But it wasn't until 2013 when she signed with Sacred Bones that she attempted to distill those sounds into an LP-length statement.

He was a complex public figure whose death sparked a flurry of hot takes, arguments and attempts to distill his legacy as one of either good or evil.