Sentence examples for attempts to update from inspiring English sources

With "Norse Mythology," Neil Gaiman attempts to update such tales for the modern era.

In 1984 Simon & Schuster bought the syndicate and began its own attempts to update the series.

But what they do with the songs defies folk purism and typical attempts to update.

Over the years there have been various small attempts to update the text: these have sensibly now stopped.

Many designers have made similar attempts to update the ballgown for the 21st century, usually with excruciatingly awkward results.

But, hey, there do seem to be some genuine attempts to update the multi-million dollar recipe with some strategic gameplay and refreshed multiplayer.

The government has made no attempt to update its estimate since releasing it on April 28.

But fashion shouldn't just be about old favorites and an attempt to update them.

And equally human is the instinct to defend your own turf, which is what now seems likely to wreck the latest attempt to update American financial regulation.

Similarly, the attempt to update "Fantasia" for the millennium interspersed the old movie, made 60 years before, with newly added musical excerpts.

So, there is a lot to be said for an attempt to update and annotate the first sacred text of evolutionary biology.