Sentence examples for emotional attempt from inspiring English sources

The esoteric Vaishnava-Sahajiya cult, which arose in Bengal in the 16th century, was another emotional attempt at reconciling the spirit and the flesh.

Carol Loeb Shloss's strenuous, emotional attempt to fish Lucia up from the depths of incarceration and obliteration has to do battle with very weighty pressures, giving her book a strained, excitable, defiant air.

In his hourlong closing argument, Lonnie Franklin Jr.'s defense lawyer was by turns combative and emotional, attempting to both cast doubt on the prosecution's case and telling jurors that a death verdict would "delay the healing process" for the victims' families.

That's a big chunk of change for a 17-year-old to stump up for the privilege of watching an emotional Wayne Rooney attempt to pull.

According to Dror, although physiologists were forced to deal with the problem of emotional noise, attempts to treat emotion as a subject of study in its own right never crystallized to the extent of generating a journal or other institutional features (Dror 1999, 219).

She becomes a sort of living mosaic, projecting onto herself the shards of Chubbuck's material and emotional life, attempting to reflect her states of mind as well as her physical appearance and behavior.

It is a combination of denial bordering on the delusional coupled with a post-colonial hangover – emotional responses which attempt to shout down unpleasant statistics and imply that whenever the western world talks of African poverty, the aim is to paint the continent in a bad light.

Overcome by the emotional turmoil, Joel attempted suicide by guzzling furniture polish; this too failed.

In the second, and best, season, Justified was at its most emotional as Raylan attempted to extricate a teenage girl from the homicidal matriarch of a clan of marijuana farmers.

Although government initiatives and individual school initiatives alike are frequently focused on "quality service", the workforce is simultaneously challenged with emotional intelligence in attempting to collaborate with a wide set of divergent perceptions of what constitutes quality service.

An emotional wreck and attempting suicide, Connor wires himself, a comatose Cordelia, and shop full of innocent people to explosives.