Sentence examples for he tried rather from inspiring English sources

In 1968, I watched him being shouted down by a young audience as he tried – rather pompously – to tell them to be less dogmatic.

Instead he tries, rather feebly, to make the tokens of political significance stand in for its substance.

He tries, rather, to stage disorienting encounters with "the sublime," which he defines as "the fading of the sensible, or the sense you get when you realize you're unable to make sense of something".

Focus on how hard they tried rather than specific results.

Lyricist Bernie Taupin was unsurprised - he had shared a flat with Elton when he had tried rather half-heartedly to commit suicide over his relationship with Linda Woodrow, 15 years earlier.

Under the new law, statistical evidence by itself is insufficient in proving the influence of race, and a defendant must prove that race was a factor in death sentencing in "the county or prosecutorial district" when he or she was tried, rather than regionally or statewide.

It also sought to limit the number of suspects being tried – rather, some say, than implicate its own ranks.

The irony is that we know that strategy won't work, because Brown has tried rather too much of it.

The focus there is you have tried rather than not try at all.

Those failing to reach this at 16 will keep trying, rather than leaving.

And the French are trying, rather uncharacteristically, to avoid any hint of triumphalism.