Sentence examples similar to gracious attempts from inspiring English sources
Maybe that was just a gracious attempt to make me feel better, but I believed him.
"Ride the High Country," Sam Peckinpah's elegiac work from 1962 — screening at BAM on Oct. 28 in a New York Film Critics Circle series — is a gracious attempt to resolve these tensions.
We duly turned up in the middle of the day to be greeted by kindly astonishment and a gracious attempt to explain how things worked in the sophisticated world we were about to enter.
Here, however, the mansions built by the rich were frequently Western attempts to adapt gracious urban living to an equatorial, Oriental setting.
Besides, Mr. Bush is so gracious he will just brush off any attempts by Mr. McCain to portray him as the Black Knight.
We fully acknowledge their contributions to the success of our project whether through the generous suggestions of ideas, countless attempts to help us debug, or gracious contribution of their own code.
The committee member said that Mr. Bloomberg never made any attempts to contact the commission after appointing it, and was gracious when he learned of its decision.
A phone call from Mimi (Kathleen Chalfant), a gracious woman he meets by chance on a bus, interrupts his attempt to hang himself from a noose made of neckties.
Even if I mess up in my attempts to understand, I trust that my African-American brothers and sisters will be gracious with me and help me.
