Sentence examples for honorable efforts from inspiring English sources

This is the principal challenge facing any movie about a writer, and it dooms many honorable efforts to either timidity or ridiculousness.

Edna Gundersen of USA Today gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of four and said, "Though its most smartly crafted tunes and liveliest performances don't measure up to the band's finest, Honor is an honorable effort, full of the brawn and vigor that keeps the Foos in fighting shape".

Leslie Denniston's performance is an honorable effort.

But it's an honorable effort worthy of note.

Mr. Domingo's performance on Teldec (3984-25249-2; two CD's) is at least an honorable effort.

Ms. Voigt sang her first "Aida" at the Met in 1999, a vocally tentative but honorable effort.

If the Bush name was tarnished by breaking the no-new-taxes pledge in an honorable effort to cut the deficit, W. can fix that.

Although he rebounded to an honorable effort, it was hard to see how he could make it through three more performances, including those tonight and on Tuesday.

Others found it an honorable effort but lacking in the kind of vitality and musical profile that can create character and propel action.

He won his most resounding applause with a pledge "to fight if necessary" over Berlin but tempered this declaration with a promise to "spare no honorable effort to find a peaceful and mutually acceptable resolution of this problem".

To put the best possible spin on the war, Southern writers in the post-bellum years characterized the South's shattering defeat as an honorable effort against impossible odds, Mr. Gallagher said.