Sentence examples for attempt to impart from inspiring English sources

I was left in my rough wooden clogs with their uppers of black canvas, to which I would sometimes apply a crude ointment in an unsuccessful attempt to impart a tiny bit of lustre.

Both the description of art and the invocation of historical evidence are a kind of striving for proof: not direct proof but an attempt to impart an air of scientific rationality to one's writing — you know, all the apparatus of sounding as though you knew what you were talking about.

Huizhou seals attempt to impart an ancient, weathered impression, although unlike other Huizhou artists Hu did not make a regular practice of artificially aging his seals.

Nevertheless, you chose to attempt to impart homophobia and transphobia with legitimacy by projecting it onto an already vetted, well received critique of race inequality, which is not at all commendable.

In the course of the opinion the court said (p. 598): 'The whole case is put on the proviso, and the argument with regard to that is merely one of the many attempts to impart an overmathematical nicety to the prohibitions of the 14th Amendment.' These principles were again applied in Martin v. Pittsburg & L. E. R. Co. 203 U. S. 284, 51 L. ed.

After the war, the Kyoto School's idealistic attempts to impart meaning and direction to Japan's "world historical mission" were seen especially by the emerging Left that had at long last been freed from repression and persecution as support for its de facto militaristic fascism.

It's one of many lessons Heti's aphorism-loaded play attempts to impart to its audience.

In his sermons Swift attempted to impart traditional Church of Ireland values to his listeners in a plain manner.

She attempted to impart joy to others by gifting red balloons to other patients in the hospital cancer ward and baking brownies for nurses.

While the books could be said to comprise many other themes, such as power/abuse of power, love, prejudice, and free choice, they are, as Rowling states, "deeply entrenched in the whole plot"; the writer prefers to let themes "grow organically", rather than sitting down and consciously attempting to impart such ideas to her readers.

Inoue was charged by Miyake with making the music of the game "newer and fresher", as Miyake was tired of the series repeating the same concepts, and Inoue attempted to impart his own style into the original pieces and to use new styles of arrangements.