It doesn't strive for the operatic grandeur of the "Godfather" movies or for the tragicomic flair of Martin Scorsese's mobster movies.
"Poetry of the John Ashbery sort -- it's written for the academy and a few hangers-on -- it doesn't strive to communicate," said Rennie McQuilken, the poet who used to be director of the Sunken Garden festival.
Among Johannesburg's top newer hotels, The Westcliff is an urbane grande dame; it doesn't strive for either the edgy, thick-of-things vibe of the Melrose Arch Hotel or the suburban-bubble remove of The Saxon out in Sandton.
"I think art is lifeless and hollow and disposable if it doesn't strive for something greater beyond the surface," he says, drawing comparisons between art and literature, in the sense that both disciplines convey an experience.
What's the point of my parent's struggle, if I do not strive to be better?
Why is it that, just because a thing does not strive to destroy itself, that thing must therefore strive to persevere in being?
Mercifully this show does not strive for definition in its wall texts.
Unlike Buruma and Margalit, Harris does not strive to complement earlier work so much as to extend it to the contemporary political scene.
But he does not strive for expertise.
