Sentence examples for makes a strenuous from inspiring English sources

The book, which is designed to focus public attention on Kafka's intimate life, makes a strenuous effort over and above that to urge readers to rigorously ignore the events of the Holocaust in order to understand Kafka's work.

Of course hunks can suffer too, and while his singing is uneven, Mr. Blanchard makes a strenuous attempt to embody the tormented soul of his character, drawn to humanity but repulsive to it.

Marshall makes a strenuous case for Bishop's social enlightenment, and argues that, while Bishop indeed lived a life of privilege in Brazil, she was nevertheless "an outsider, a dependent whose trust fund met only basic expenses"—a rationale that may make one queasier than anything in the poems.

During the last year, Austria has made a strenuous attempt to sort things out.

In life a few fine souls come along to make a strenuous case for how a person should be.

public use unless the owner can prove he made a strenuous effort to keep the public out.

At firms that make a strenuous effort to persuade analysts that such board changes have boosted independence, and thus made management more accountable, the likelihood of a subsequent stock upgrade rises by 36%, the study concluded.

EDDINGTON, Me. — There is a bend in the Penobscot River here, embanked by an Indian burial ground, through which millions of fish used to make a strenuous journey upstream to spawn before returning to the sea.

He then made a strenuous effort for critical acclaim with his role as the serial killer Albert DeSalvo in The Boston Strangler (1968), flashily directed with use of a split screen.

You should make a strenuous effort, he advises, but beware of crossing that invisible line: "When some overachieving wannabe presents show-off food at home I always find there is an awkward feeling around the table -- what are we supposed to say as Julian presents us with his copy of some visual masterpiece he found in a chef's (ghostwritten) cookery book?

He made a strenuous effort to direct the Fabian Society towards his own idiosyncratic model of socialism (an updated version of Plato's Republic), nearly destroying it in the process, and worked selflessly if vainly all his life for the cause of world government.