Sentence examples for in trying to emulate from inspiring English sources

His last emotional transformation is, thankfully, one that both convinces and sticks — and one that the reader may find value, perhaps even salvation of a sort, in trying to emulate.

He stands for everything that Bud rejects in trying to emulate Gekko; and indeed, it is Bud's willingness to cash in on some inside information, union information, that has come his father's way that finally persuades Gekko that the young man has the right wrong stuff in him.

St John Philby had been a popular success at Westminster, but "Kim was uninterested in trying to emulate … these successes, nor did he give the impression of having turned his back on them because he knew he would fall short of his father's achievement: it was merely that he thought he had better things to do".

She suggests that the text invites us to exercise our imaginations in envisioning what these people might have been like and what we ourselves might become in trying to emulate them.

"All we are," Wilpon said, "is the little guy in Queens trying to emulate the Yankees".

There's no shame in Warner Bros. trying to emulate that.

In second grade, I was the only lefty on my Little League team, and I would spend countless hours in my backyard in South Albany futilely trying to emulate its beauty and grace.

Some other PTAs, including those at P.S. 261 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, and P.S. 11 in Chelsea, are trying to emulate professional fund-raising outfits, by quietly reaching out to the splattering of bankers and small business owners for large donations, while largely bypassing those who have less.

Feld: Part of Boulder's success was in deliberately not trying to emulate Silicon Valley.

They, in turn, were trying to emulate their pro-league heroes on the pitch, with their skills and celebrations and bravado all broadcast live on a huge, high-definition screen.

When he was 17, Beck grew fascinated after hearing a Mississippi John Hurt record at a friend's house, and spent hours in his room trying to emulate the finger picking of the country-blues guitarist.