Sentence examples for attempting to fathom from inspiring English sources
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.
Here's my approach, somehow the one way I feel I can make a contribution: For many years I have been attempting to fathom the cryptic symbology in the Bible, Genesis in particular.
The bill's original author, Alaska Delegate Bob Bartlett, spoke for many of the bill's proponents when he expressed his bafflement at the response that it had received: I am completely at a loss in attempting to fathom the reasons why certain individuals and certain groups have now started a letter-writing campaign … to defeat the act.
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.
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.
J. Michael Bitzer (Catawba College) attempted to fathom some of the patterns underlying competitive politics in the Tar Heel State.
The children instinctively demonstrate what makes us most human as they attempt to fathom their world, to build wings that bridge gaps, to map their way up, to soar.
Any attempt to fathom Phelps's liquid mastery must, I thought, free itself from landlubberly prejudices and grapple with Phelps's uncanny fish-ness.
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".
