Sentence examples for documentary efforts from inspiring English sources

As an expression of their responsibility to the dead, they can insist on a scrupulous rendering of historical detail; many therefore can be comfortable only with precise documentary efforts at re-creation.

And as digital artists finally start to produce works inspired by the terrorist attacks and their political aftermath, the documentary efforts may be becoming more provocative, too: an M.I.T. professor has a plan, which may or may not be realized, to send a robot into Afghanistan to do the on-ground reporting he says the Pentagon is not allowing the press to do.

Architectural theory as a didactic or polemic pursuit (beyond De Architectura, which Vitruvius may have intended as a documentary effort) was launched in the Renaissance with Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (1485).

My project was quickly becoming more of a documentary effort.

"Not a documentary effort, but an emotionally driven story that people can immerse themselves in".

The documentary effort, which culminated after hundreds of Americans submitted their stories and calls for action to The Dream is Now, is timely.

"Sweet Dreams," a documentary about efforts by the Brooklyn-based Blue Marble Ice Cream company to help a group of Rwandan women open their own shop, could have come off as insensitive or twee.

A skateboarding trip to Israel in 2004 provided the inspiration for "God Went Surfing With the Devil," a documentary about efforts by Israeli surfers to send surfboards to their Palestinian counterparts in Gaza.

Bill Moyers and his production company, Public Affairs Television, won the gold baton, the duPont Awards highest honor, for a two-hour documentary on efforts by South Africans to heal the wounds left by apartheid.

I was there with Pace University students making a short documentary on efforts to protect endangered sea turtles in an area where the economy revolves around fishing — most of which is done with nets that can also drown sea turtles (sometimes intentionally).

I travelled to Sumatra in early May to trace Dana's roots and make a documentary about efforts to save her species.