Sentence examples for attempts at explaining from inspiring English sources

It is the language of the everyday — woefully insufficient yet so strangely beautiful — that we apply to constant, failed attempts at explaining this impossible world.

Platini has made three attempts at explaining the payment but has yet to publicly produce any paperwork to back up his case or convincingly explain away the nine-year delay.

Atomism in the strict sense is not merely one of the historical forms of atomism, one of the many possible scientific attempts at explaining certain physical phenomena; it is, first of all, a metaphysical system: it has been presented as the only possible explanation of change and multiplicity.

Attempts at explaining election outcomes through public opinion on issues vastly overestimate how much thought the average voter puts in to his or her decision.

We shall return to more recent attempts at explaining how observations can serve to confirm a scientific theory in section 4 below.

Descartes also made unsuccessful attempts at explaining embryology in terms of matter and motion alone; e.g., tissue and organ origination is accounted for via matter slowing down and aggregating in different regions of the embryo (Des Chene 2001, ch. 2; Smith 2006, Part II).

Any attempt at explaining myself has already been defined by the stereotypes that circulate around me.

The top commander in Afghanistan, John F Campbell, later admitted – in the fourth attempt at explaining the devastating attack – that the hospital was "mistakenly struck".

In a bizarre attempt at explaining or justifying the slaughter, it has been proffered that these were thugs, armed with lethal weapons intent on killing others.

Some readers may find the mathematical chapters heavy going, but Mr Derbyshire makes a valiant attempt at explaining the mathematical ideas around the problem.

In his news conference, his fourth attempt at explaining his remarks, Mr. Lott described the remarks as a mistake, apologized and repeatedly denounced segregation.