Sentence examples for attempts to reason from inspiring English sources

The unsettling intensity of her love for Orlando keeps peeking through the surface raillery of her attempts to reason him out of his love for the Rosalind of his imagination and into a love for the complicated human being he has never really met.

The woman screams, scolds, pleads, begs, and attempts to reason with the bear, all to no avail.

With Luna still caught in a trance, Alex attempts to reason with her to leave while the others are teleported to safety.

They are revealed to be hostages in a bank holdup, and Scully attempts to reason with their captor (Darren E. Burrows), only to have him reveal a bomb strapped to his chest.

The internal emails reveal Clinton staffers' attempts to reason with a wealthy political candidate who didn't appreciate the potential damage that could be done if her husband ― referred to as "WJC" in the communications ― spoke to a prominent Wall Street firm just three days after she formally announced her presidential campaign.

In keeping with his stage theory of moral development he explicitly rejects Locke's maxim, 'Reason with children,' (Locke, 1971) on the ground that attempting to reason with a child younger than thirteen years of age is developmentally inappropriate.

They would attempt to reason.

One congressman told a protester that attempting to reason with her about health care would be like "trying to argue with a dining-room table".

Jack Laskey, meanwhile, is the perfect everyman, attempting to reason using straightforward language and a placatory manner with a man who speaks in rhymes and constant contradiction.

During the journey, Wade murders two of his captors, and he makes a prolonged attempt to reason or bully Dan into letting him go.

And the stress of attempting to reason with a bawling child can make it hard for parents to contain their frustration - especially when passersby feel it is appropriate to comment on the situation.