Sentence examples for human attempt from inspiring English sources

That is, the Absolute should lie beyond any human attempt to describe it fully.

Religion, our rituals, our music, even our theology, is a human attempt to express what we have experienced.

In a sense, marriage is the human attempt to fuse the "I and the not-I" and divorce an exercise in the ultimate irreconcilability of point of view.

(Monbiot does not like the human attempt to "control" nature, yet he seems quite at ease with the heavy landscape-engineering of the badger or the termite).

He dealt with the human attempt to define one's own personality by the removal of masks to see if there is a face underneath.

Two sounds played a profound role in the creation of his symphony, Sir Peter explains, and they once again evoke the pattern of an eerie landscape contrasted with the human attempt to master it.

Genesis is punctuated with human attempts to be radically self-sufficient.

Human attempts at this music are rarely satisfying, but Mr. Adès may surprise us.

NATURAL selection follows no plan, which makes human attempts to classify biodiversity inevitably messy.

In his thoughtful, global tour of epilepsy through the ages, it's the blunt instrument of human attempts to cure the disease that Grant illuminates.

Yet much of Brautigan's work is concerned with death, the passage of time, and human attempts, however futile, at stemming time's flow.