Sentence examples for attempt to fathom from inspiring English sources

Any attempt to fathom Phelps's liquid mastery must, I thought, free itself from landlubberly prejudices and grapple with Phelps's uncanny fish-ness.

Similarly, the history of the narrator's marriage and the complexities of her worrisome financial situation can be apprehended only if we slow down and attempt to fathom what is being said — and not said.

"Female Ruins" -- a daughter's homage to her father's unrealized dreams -- so beautifully evokes her attempt to fathom him that Nicholson might have called it "What's Poppa?" or "Don't Give Me That Architectural Genius Stuff, I'm His Daughter".

Keats himself remains something of an enigma, no doubt by design, as much of the film concerns Fanny's attempt to fathom him: she dispatches her little sister to buy a copy of Endymion to see "if he's an idiot or not".

I was in the wireless broadband-free bosom of Torquay at the time, attending the annual Agatha Christie festival, hoping to talk to the fans – massing, on the first day, at the village fete on the green – in an attempt to fathom her appeal.

I weigh up the capabilities of his limited intelligence and attempt to fathom the depths of his hatred.

There are touching scenes, some in bed at night, in which his wife Ginger attempts to fathom her husband's strange new life as an F.B.I. informant.

The stresses of Holden's work, of attempting to fathom unspeakable sexual violence all day long, sharply impact his domestic life with Debbie, if you know what I mean.

The link that emerged between pensions and wages was not the original focus of the thinktank's researchers – its chief economist Matthew Whitaker was attempting to fathom out how much staff and the self-employed have lost from the UK's flatlined productivity and how a rise in productivity would feed into future wages.

This was very useful for those of us who spent about 82% of our teenage lives attempting to fathom precisely what Robert Smith was saying in every single song by the Cure (further note to younger readers: this was in the days before lyrics.com or, indeed, anything.com.

J. Michael Bitzer (Catawba College) attempted to fathom some of the patterns underlying competitive politics in the Tar Heel State.