Sentence examples for attempts to please from inspiring English sources

He's like you and I, the child within who attempts to please and then fails.

But move he did, rendering a hilarious and complicated meditation on relationships, the body and doomed attempts to please another person.

If it's hard to quantify their effect, it's best to consider Super Bowl advertisements as very expensive attempts to please, amuse, distract, and even, perhaps unintentionally, unsettle us — and to judge them accordingly.

On Saturday night at Radio City Music Hall, she operated in a realm far removed from most performers' attempts to please a crowd: a realm of long memory, odd caprices and ambivalence about the confines of pop.

Schools not under investigation also overhauled their policies and procedures in preëmptive attempts to please O.C.R. (Several pending federal lawsuits are challenging O.C.R.'s process surrounding the 2011 Dear Colleague letter as a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act).

At the same time, the confidence that American lenders had in the rule of law, probably one of the main pillars of the economy, was demolished by government actions that invalidated some lenders' long-held legal rights in favor of ad hoc attempts to please various political constituencies.

He zigzagged on immigration in an attempt to please everyone and predictably pleased no-one.

Many in Russia viewed Vekselberg's action as a transparent attempt to please Putin.

For Romney, the danger is that of going too far in attempting to please every constituency.

"The town board totally ignored their public trust in their attempt to please the Talmages".

She called the remarks part of an ill-conceived attempt to please various government constituencies.