Sentence examples for attempts to perfect from inspiring English sources

That is how Thomas Edison described his laborious attempts to perfect the incandescent light bulb.

So said Thomas Edison, the prolific inventor, speaking of his laborious attempts to perfect the incandescent light bulb.

Previous attempts to perfect the technology in Harvard and elsewhere have produced useful models, but have proven to be too fragile or unable to navigate around each other.

Frederik Pohl, whose passion for science fiction while growing up in Brooklyn led to a distinguished career as one of its most literate and politically sophisticated practitioners, though one who was skeptical about attempts to perfect society through scientific means, died on Monday.

The torment of the poet Ted Hughes over the fate in 1963 of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath, is reflected in his repeated attempts to perfect a poem about the night of her suicide – a previously unknown piece which is now being published.

However, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" took more attempts to perfect than the other songs recorded that day; it wasn't until take 16 that Dylan and his band captured on tape the version that was released on the album.

"It's an excellent point because my desire is always to attempt to perfect my games.

One such refurbishment project is taking place at the Appalachian Fruit Research Station, in West Virginia: an attempt to perfect Luther Burbank's stoneless plum.

Meanwhile, Cuarón and his crew spent many headscratching months attempting to perfect natural-looking lighting and convincing zero-grav floating, building a giant cube to house the actors and using complex animated sequences to programme camera moves.

For months, SpaceX has been attempting to perfect booster technology that could help humans land on bodies with less gravity than earth (such as Mars) and then – most importantly – safely back on Earth.

What most often starts as an innocent attempt to perfect the dark art of bringing these sugary treats into existence in one's own kitchen evolves into a tiny home business.