If you were alive in the 80s, you followed Yosser Hughes's tragic efforts to find work and hang on to his family.
She is far less forgiving of Fannie Hurst, author of the best-selling 1933 novel "Imitation of Life," about a young black girl's tragic efforts to pass as white.
As he trains for the race, Mr Murakami muses on his tragic efforts to outpace ageing, in a doomed bid to reduce his rising race times.A self-confessed oddball, Mr Murakami is a peculiar memoirist.
It is not clear that we are purchasing much more than complicity in government corruption — which, given what foreign aid really could buy in much of the world, and the political scorn those efforts attract, is tragic.
Yvonne Collery's apartment at 125 Second Avenue was being used "24/7 as a lookout" for fire fighter and rescue efforts following the tragic gas explosion that occurred last Thursday, March 26th in New York City's East Village.
His tragic efforts, however, were consistently ridiculed by contemporaries: when Cibber in the role of Richard III made love to Lady Anne, the Grub Street Journal wrote, "he looks like a pickpocket, with his shrugs and grimaces, that has more a design on her purse than her heart".
In 1963, UNICEF supported relief efforts after the tragic earthquake in Skopje.
… Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue… For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity.
If they ever read this book, which they won't, they would probably put their hands to their throat in the gesture known to German gays as "the necklace of pearls", roll their eyes, and say what we always say of a tragic effort all round – "Pur-lease".
Professor X's efforts are heroic but tragic.
