Sentence examples for consciously attempting from inspiring English sources

Aleotti, Cozzolani, and Leonarda consistantly break rules of harmony, voice leading, and text setting, as if they were consciously attempting to carve out a new, disobediant musical direction.

I can see in retrospect that those things were otherwise relatively elusive in my daily life, my parents consciously attempting to find a new way to be a family, upending the previous norms.

Richard P. Vigilante, the executive director of JesuitNet, said, "What we're very consciously attempting to do now as we develop these courses is to embody the principles of Jesuit learning in the online offering: academic rigor, personalized instruction, faculty support, service learning and ethical concerns".

Operating within this basic framework of morality, Suárez developed a theory of natural law that has attracted much attention despite his consciously attempting to position himself midway between two radically opposed views about natural law.

While the books could be said to comprise many other themes, such as power/abuse of power, love, prejudice, and free choice, they are, as Rowling states, "deeply entrenched in the whole plot"; the writer prefers to let themes "grow organically", rather than sitting down and consciously attempting to impart such ideas to her readers.

The Pentecostal churches of the 20th century quite consciously attempted to protect themselves against liturgical formalism.

But immediately after the accident he had consciously attempted to "lock in" his precious childhood years.

As one takes the first step into the world of troubleshooting, one must consciously attempt to leave perceptions, presumptions, and past intuition behind.

Beginning in the 1840s, these athletes and, in the 1850s and 1860s, their supporters in the press consciously attempted to create a sport that suited their modern sensibilities.

Keats's desire to write something unlike the luxuriant wandering of Endymion is clear, and he thus consciously attempts to emulate the epic loftiness of John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Over the years, she consciously attempted to shape the careers and morale of scores of young people, and she accepted their love as her due.