Sentence examples for had applied himself from inspiring English sources

On occasion, he gets wistful about the life he might have had if he had applied himself conventionally.

During this period, Charles H. Goren, a Philadelphia lawyer who had applied himself to bridge in college after a young woman laughed at his poor play, displaced Culbertson as the nation's preëminent authority.

One defense lawyer, Tai H. Park, told jurors that Mr. Banki had applied himself "like very few others do," and tried to do everything "the right way" until he was "set off his path by a misguided prosecution fraught with grievous error".

He has applied himself to latin music, classical music, jazz and even a spell of acting.

And so, over the past half-year or so, Mr Gore has applied himself to this problem.

The trouble with Mr Friedman is that he appears never to have applied himself to anything complex and dull.

He will also have applied himself to the problem of closures and extracted promises and commitments on this issue.

Still, Ortega has applied himself studiously to his task, and the film is some recompense for those deprived by his death of seeing Jackson live".

Always a great one for self-improvement, a night-school man, Cullis was known to have applied himself to Esperanto; and to French.

Buchanan quit the Tory party in 2009, after David Cameron announced support for all-women parliamentary candidate shortlists and has applied himself to promoting anti-feminism, and has written three books on the topic.

In the next century, Bede (died 735) is said to have translated parts of the Gospels, and, though he knew Greek and possibly even some Hebrew, he does not appear to have applied himself to the Old Testament.