The phrase "attempting to mirror" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to reflect or replicate something, such as behavior, ideas, or styles.
Example: "The artist is attempting to mirror the emotions expressed in the original painting through her own interpretation."
Alternatives: "trying to reflect" or "seeking to replicate".
The slightly more desperate might like to try a spot of Derren Brown-style psychological trickery by attempting to mirror the body language of your chosen buddy.
In Beauvoir's view, however, if women are not themselves subjects, but that in contrast with which men's subjectivities are constituted, they are still freely responsible for this situation, insofar as women collaborate in this process by seeing themselves through the eyes of men, justifying their existence through their romantic relationships, and attempting to mirror men's being.
They are average gay men attempting to mirror the bodies of the gods.
While you may admire the elocution of a great writer, speaker or poet, attempting to mirror their voice to make your sentiments sound more important is not a great idea.
The Young Conservatives of Texas UT chapter priced the baked goods the highest for Asians, marking down the prices for white, black and Hispanic people, attempting to mirror what they believe is preferential treatment in the application process.
Attempting to mirror anti-discrimination rulings against bakeries that refuse service to gay couples, activists have been contacting LGBT-affirming bakeries requesting custom cakes frosted with anti-gay slogans.
Fabio Borini attempted to mirror Ritchie's volley on the hour but it flew over and as the clock ticked by Bournemouth re-established their control.
Life is messy and absurd and Sterne was one of the first writers to attempt to mirror this messiness and absurdity on the page, which is why his heirs include writers as various as Woolf and Beckett.
Today's action movies — with pretensions to deep-thinking, and filled with rueful and angry superheroes or geopolitical conflicts that attempt to mirror the fragmented realities of the War on Terror world — demand a more serious treatment, and those thunderous musical cues seem handed down to remind us that even frivolous popcorn movies aren't supposed to merely be fun anymore.
Boy, Snow, Bird is an impressive performance marred only by the well-meaning but awkward explanation given at the end of the book for Frank's abusiveness, which attempts to mirror the theme of racial passing with a parallel subplot about gender.
Siren, on the other hand, attempts to mirror the way that attraction generally works in real life: one person subtly signals interest, via eye contact or a smile, and the other person, feeling safe and emboldened by those signals, initiates a conversation.
