Sentence examples for fervent attempt from inspiring English sources

THE choreographer Chris Elam makes strange, contorted dances in which people knot themselves into compact sculptural forms, tangling their limbs with another's in what can look like a fervent attempt at human connection.

My truth about Hanukkah was more of a fervent attempt to believe that Hanukkah was better than Christmas -- after all, it was longer and we got more presents, and besides, I didn't really feel left out when the school choir sang carols and re-enacted the nativity on stage and the neighbors had such pretty lights on their houses and my friends debated the existence of Santa Claus.

Her mother's (Molly Parker) desperate search for the child galvanizes the other characters and throws into relief their prickly, fervent attempts to connect with other people.

Despite fervent attempts of black people to reclaim their humanity by asserting that the lives of black people do infact matter, racist opponents refuse to acknowledge the marginalization of an entire group of people by nature of their racial identity.

The notion of representation has recently come under fervent attack.

The cast's four women, despite their fervent, individual attempts at posturing, share a similar dullness.

Yet they stood fast with the Confederacy: writing home in 1862, Friedenwald warned his family that a Union victory would "palsy the fervent immigrant from attempting to embark to a land of dissension, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations will be a land without law and Liberty".

But Abe, one of the shrine's most fervent devotees, has drawn criticism that he is attempting to use the shrine to promote his conservative political agenda.

It is our fervent hope that Californians will reject this mean-spirited attempt to embed second-class treatment of one group of citizens in the State Constitution.

LIKE many popular insurgencies in American history, the Tea Party movement has attempted to enlist the founding fathers as fervent adherents to its cause.

He wrote, "Like many popular insurgencies in American history, the Tea Party movement has attempted to enlist the founding fathers as fervent adherents to its cause.