Sentence examples for he found himself trying from inspiring English sources

Instead, he found himself trying reconcile feuding leaders.

In an ironic twist, Castillo said he found himself trying to cheer up the slumping Tejada.

But he found himself trying to explain away an unwanted distinction.

Mostly, he found himself trying to help children with absurdly soaked bottoms and wet knees regain their balance.

When he turned fifty, he said, he found himself "trying to figure out what I'd accomplished and what I hadn't, what my career had been about and what this town was about".

He played a Chilean publicist fighting the Pinochet regime in Pablo Larrain's No, a video-game author wandering around Thailand in Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, a Spanish transvestite in Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education, and he found himself trying to woo Charlotte Gainsbourg in Michel Gondry's wondrous The Science of Sleep.

Now, he finds himself trying to explain to co-workers why he can't donate blood when blood drives are held at work.

I think he's got a huge moral compass, and I think he finds himself trying to do what's right in a hugely immoral situation.

The situation he finds himself trying to escape is an extended metaphor for Maitland's personal life, trapped in the dead space between himself, his wife and his mistress.

Regularly, he says, he finds himself trying to explain the physics of burns to a judge or jury: "The hotter the water, the much quicker the burn is, exponentially quicker rather than just linear".

With one of his former employees facing criminal charges and the bank under investigation by regulators, he finds himself trying to repair the damage caused by what regulators describe as a typical Wall Street scheme.