Sentence examples for attempts to absorb from inspiring English sources

Smitten by Abstract Expressionism, Louis made unsatisfying attempts to absorb variants of the style.

His own borrowings are not acts of imitation or homage but rather attempts to absorb and extend what other filmmakers have done.

He would have done better to focus more deeply on one or two pivotal moments: Gauguin's decision to abandon his family and pursue art, for instance, or his attempts to absorb and capture Polynesian culture.

Through interviews and a large-scale survey of R&D scientists and engineers, this paper explores individuals' attempts to absorb external knowledge, focusing on their efforts to identify and assimilate external knowledge and promote its utilization.

She refused identification with any movement, and resisted attempts to absorb her work into any genre (she always denied that she was a magical realist, for example, arguing that the phrase was meaningless when used outside the specific context of Latin American literature).

She chronicled their two-week journey to China in an eloquent adoption diary that includes comment on everything from the sparrow kebabs and goat testicles that she encountered during her first days in Beijing to the mothers' attempts to absorb the essence of the country that their daughters never knew.

I splash through the puddles, lean into banks and attempt to absorb the bumps.

The arrangement is living testimony of the community's attempt to absorb distressed neighbours.

But where to put "Women of Algiers, After Delacroix" (1955), Picasso's attempt to absorb Matisse immediately after his death?

The personnel cuts come as the Pentagon is attempting to absorb nearly $1 trillion in reductions to planned defence spending over a decade.

The attempt to absorb Vietnam into China also engendered an increasing self-consciousness among the people of the northern and central regions of Vietnam.