Sentence examples similar to forever attempts from inspiring English sources

They were forever attempting to win favour by guessing what the boss wanted or might applaud but might well not have asked for.

But they have waited in vain for him to stand firm on what matters to him and to the country rather than forever attempting to turn non-argumentative reasonableness into its own virtuous reward.

The compensation that Nureyev offers, in his art but also in his general élan, is all the sweeter because it is ephemeral, and the characters in "Dancer" are forever attempting to calculate the exchange; how can the "momentary lightness" he bestows — grace in both senses of the word — ever be weighed against all that he has taken?

The compensation that Nureyev offers, in his art but also in his general élan, is all the sweeter because it is ephemeral, and the characters in "Dancer" are forever attempting to calculate the exchange; how can the "momentary lightness" he bestows grace in both senses of the word ever be weighed against all that he has taken?

The action revolves around some half-a-dozen well-to-do metropolitan sophisticates who are forever attempting to meet up for dinner parties and elegant soirees only to find the event ruined by an absent host, or some mysterious misunderstanding, or bizarre turn of events, and then one will awake to find it all to be a dream, yet the distinction between dream and waking does not become any clearer.

The unusual emphasis on a conservative attitude distinguishes Kuhn not only from the heroic element of the standard picture but also from Popper and his depiction of the scientist forever attempting to refute her most important theories.

Republicans endlessly deny that unregulated markets caused this crisis and are forever attempting to label the recession as Obama's own, the better to obscure the degree to which the recession began when a Republican was in the White House and was brought on by an ill-regulated financial system.

From Homer's epics to Monet's landscapes, all the way up to Andy Goldsworthy's tedious rock sculptures, creators have forever attempted to understand nature, not through the quantifiable measures of math or science, but by evoking certain intangible truths that aren't easily pinned down.

In the 1980s, the agency introduced a series of ads setting a new arbitrary but authoritative-seeming benchmark: "Isn't two months' salary a small price to pay for something that lasts forever?" Some attempts at changing cultural attitudes were more successful than others.

For instance, the 1/24th of a second around which the entire film industry is based on is equal to 0.0416666666666666… on and on forever (even attempting to use nanoseconds to represent these durations ends up creating fractions of nanoseconds).

"Even if we do not win immediately, we will give a lesson to future generations, that choosing to protect the nation is an honour and selling it out is the greatest betrayal that history will remember forever, despite the attempts of the others to tell you otherwise".