Sentence examples for frustrated quest from inspiring English sources
The golden city of El Dorado eluded hellbent adventurers, whose frustrated quest nonetheless put much of South America on the map.
Since 1999, Kaplan Thaler has produced a critic-proof campaign for Aflac that features an irascible duck shouting "Aflac!" rather than "Quack!" in a frustrated quest for attention.
Michael Moore Hates America, Michael Wilson's 2004 documentary feature, echoes Manufacturing Dissent, in that both films include the desperate, frustrated quest by the film-makers to get Moore to sit down for an interview.
It would have been better for the world if this movie had been made decades ago, because the facts that are brought out in Buirski's film are—and ought to be known as a constant and inextricable correlate to African-Americans' ongoing and frustrated quest for civil rights.
Like the frustrated quest for an interview with General Motors CEOO Roger Smith in Moore's 1989 debut feature Roger & Me, Melnyk and Caine decided to structure their film around their efforts to get Moore to sit down and answer a number of troubling questions.
Even as a basketball player at the University of Arizona, Lofton became acquainted with frustrated quests.
But the Indiana point guard made no attempt at levity when asked if he empathized with Ewing's physical and emotional travails over the past few years and his long-frustrated quest to win a National Basketball Association championship.
Also, an acrimonious dispute with Greece over the name of the republic frustrated Macedonia's quest for international recognition, thereby deterring foreign investment and delaying economic reform.
Gardner's passion for Brooke became a frustrated, post-adolescent quest for sexual experience in which she describes "wandering hand-in-hand like children".
With no more nudity in the painting, a frustrated Marcia gives up her quest to have the painting destroyed.
Perhaps in present-day societies, the attraction to money is so powerful that people who, relatively speaking, fail in their quest for increased financial resources become frustrated.
