Sentence examples for honorable attempts from inspiring English sources

These were honorable attempts to evoke the actual performance of Greek tragedy, which we know to have been sung.

Though critics have found fault with the black character, he seemed to me plausible and complex enough — the earliest of Maxwell's many honorable attempts to portray African-Americans.

Looking Forward is an enterprising and musically honorable attempt to make the best of a bad situation.

But inevitably, someone will be fined for a play that he considered an honorable attempt at defense.

In the Sacagawea chapters, Hall makes an honorable attempt to express her thoughts using what look like crude word-for-word English renditions of her Shoshone language.

I recently wrote about Pink, and mentioned a song of hers called "Stupid Girls," a failed if honorable attempt to decry a certain strain of female celebrity.

Ap Norbu made an honorable attempt at trying to get me to shoot properly on the sandy, and fortunately unpopulated, banks of a river that passes through the town of Punakha.

In the end I'm afraid Mr. Cummings's honorable attempt to transfer the characters' pangs to the plane of archetype only serves to underscore their unfitness for the journey.

In framing the debate as a quarrel between an aspiring Kennedy-like politician and his radical activist girlfriend in the 1970's (and taking her side more than his), the movie makes an honorable attempt to enshrine the impassioned idealism of an era that has faded into "Forrest Gump" nostalgia.

FIRST SNOW In the director Mark Fergus's moody metaphysical thriller, a sleazy salesman (Guy Pearce) with a less than honorable past attempts to derail a palm reader's prediction that he'll die during the first snowfall of winter.

Even if Trump has, for years, been a notorious and noxious commenter on the shape of other peoples' bodies, especially women's bodies, there is nothing honorable about these attempts to fat-shame a fat-shamer.