Sentence examples for attempts to echo from inspiring English sources

But Weaver's attempts to echo Bryant's defense — that she was unaware she was pregnant until she suddenly gave birth, and that she was sorry for what she had done — convinced neither judge nor jury.

The father and son relationship is presented in flashbacks (a storytelling device that attempts to echo the disorder of Nic's brain, but which often feels confusing; more than once I was left wondering when a particular scene was supposed to have occurred).

This is an attempt to echo the old walls and houses that huddle close to this and other Hawksmoor churches.

Despite its deliberate archaic sound and its attempt to echo the original text's peculiarities, the King James version was accessible.

It's all very slick and expert, but Simon's purported attempt to echo the forces of nature in the systems of software goes too far.

"Jeb should've embraced his age and wisdom a bit more rather than attempting to echo the antics of the circus around him," said one Republican operative, who requested anonymity to discuss the race freely.

It is at least as good as Philip Johnson and John Burgee's Transco Tower in Houston - until now probably the best attempt to echo in glass the architectural rhythms that the 1920's had rendered in stone, and also a tower that is convincing enough as pure form to transcend the triteness of historical association.

But the brown veneers of wood in the cockpit merely looked like an attempt to echo the unfortunate trend among current furniture designers to retread late-1960s and early '70s couches and chairs that were both ugly and uncomfortable.

In VH-1's defense, I have noticed that they are at least attempting to echo back to what I consider its golden age.

While Eminem has attempted to echo the views of some on the left with his sharply critical lyrics slamming Trump for racism, Kid Rock has gone off on right-wing rants against "fake news" and the "extreme left," and maintained his support for the president.

Temptation hurtles along like the Bunnymen's Rescue being chased by The House Of Love, but there's something about the chord changes, which follow an obvious pattern, and the declamatory vocal, that suggest an attempt is being made here to echo not just Echo but Oasis and that kind of mass-appeal indie.