Sentence examples for fleeting attempts from inspiring English sources
There have been a few fleeting attempts, but none have stuck.
Spurlock also makes fleeting attempts to understand just why Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry and Louis induce such intense feelings of devotion in their teenage female fans.
In keeping with its score, "Donizetti Variations" is, save for a few fleeting attempts at darker tones, Balanchine at his most relentlessly sunny.
But these passages — and some fleeting attempts at seriousness, as in brief considerations of the basic similarities between Christianity and paganism — aren't enough to rescue "Godiva" from self-satire.
"You'll Never Walk Alone," a premiere to recorded music by Jim Brickman, was a portrait of three lonely women (Claire Malaquias, Akiko Furukawa and Sheramy Keegan-Turcotte) who made fleeting attempts to support one another.
In his 2006 book, Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs, Christopher Bonastia, PhD, reviews the federal government's role in perpetuating residential segregation in the United States, and its fleeting attempts to desegregate the nation's neighborhoods.
Instead it has become an end in itself: a never-ending party, a fleeting attempt at freedom.
There was fleeting evidence of Scottish attempts to goad him – a clear strike at his arm near the touchline in the first half.
"Dear Lord and Father, show me the way – Latitude or Bestival?" It turns out that Satan doesn't have all the best tunes after all, because it's actually rather a good list: nothing outrageously shit, nothing too fleeting and no ghastly attempts to be down with the kids.
In the book, they are redolent of cocktails and boredom, filled with attempts to provide fleeting distractions from tiresome conversations among uninteresting people.
However, acutely suicidal individuals often deny or hide their suicidal intent,[ 14, 15] and the presence of a plan for suicide is a poor predictor of attempt, as many attempters report only fleeting ideation and no premeditated plan[ 4].
