Sentence examples for even to attempt a from inspiring English sources

He is unwilling even to attempt a reasoned defense of the project: "My actions are abstract and absurd, and they are neither saving the rain forests nor feeding the world's hungry".

It may be audacious even to attempt a definition of his greatness, but it is not so difficult to describe the gifts that enabled him to create imaginative visions of pathos and mirth that, whether read or witnessed in the theatre, fill the mind and linger there.

It took Warrington a while to capitalise, as they allowed Youngquest to reply to Hicks's opener to bring the scores level at 4-4 with a 60-metre run in which the Wolves full-back Richie Mathers seemed strangely reluctant even to attempt a tackle.

Some topics are so politically charged that even to attempt a discussion online is to invite toxicity and rigid disagreement among participants.

How many hours sleep did I get?" But Johnson refused even to attempt an answer.

On the other hand: what an act of insanity even to attempt such a book!

Already in the twelfth century, and certainly by the early-thirteenth, it is futile even to attempt anything like a sequential narrative of the history of medieval philosophy.

As if even to attempt to understand it might be a gesture of disrespect for its practitioners.

Not that Watson has ever been even tempted to attempt a recreation of his heroics.

You may not even want to attempt a grade 2 piece.

To me, it wasn't even a thought to attempt a field goal," said Manning, who completed 30 of 44 passes for 246 yards and 2 touchdowns.