Sentence examples for in attempting to write from inspiring English sources

In other words what I've been doing for the last three years or so, in attempting to write another novel.

And he regretted that in attempting to write something of that wonder, he had recast the numinous as dark and malevolent.

And there are those who cannot forgive The Real Thing (1982) for creating a straw-man in the figure of Brodie: a politically mutinous soldier who, in attempting to write a play based on his own experience, is shown to be a clunky propagandist.

In attempting to write about obsession, he embraces narcissism.

I'm still considered a bit mad for not living in an overpriced shoebox in London and attempting to write for a living, but the attitude that London is the only place in Britain worth a damn is no more than regional snobbery.

Three years later Murray became embroiled in controversy when attempting to write a preamble to the Australian constitution, at the request of John Howard, the prime minister.

"You commit libel in the process of attempting to write parody or satire if a reasonable reader understands you to be writing actual facts," he said.

He spent the next months in his Greenfield home attempting to write an epic poem, but after several attempts gave up, believing he did not possess the ability.

Down in Tennessee, they're attempting to write the power to deny abortions "when necessary to save the life of the mother" into the state constitution.

"If only one knew what to remember or to pretend to remember," Elizabeth Hardwick's narrator announces at the beginning of her novel Sleepless Nights – also, in the autobiographical way, the novel the narrator herself is attempting to write in front of our eyes.

"I got about halfway through the Patty's diary section, and then I realized that a female author would get crucified for attempting to write in a male voice that sounded so utterly inauthentic," she says.