With her doting father mostly absent, trying to make the family's fortune, Hélène is subject to the whims of her egocentric mother.
The vendors, mostly Dutch, were trying to make sense of it.
Michael Lewis isn't trying to start a movement; mostly, he's trying to make fun of the new fatherhood.
Quite a few big names, but mostly young artists trying to make a living from their music.
Mostly though, Elsie is trying to make us laugh.
Mostly, though, we were trying to make jokes at Romney's expense.
"They're mostly poor people just trying to make a better life for themselves," said Manoel Caetano Cysneiros, the police spokesman in Recife.
The inmates Mr. Beesley has chosen to follow seem remarkably unhardened: Mr. Liles among the men, and on the women's side, mostly young drug offenders, trying to make the most of their time inside — to reconnect with lost family, to figure out what kind of mothers they want to be, to think about life beyond the prison walls.
The fast-food industry used to employ mostly younger people just trying to make some extra money as they went through school.
They were a little competitive, but mostly they were just trying to make what they were doing good, like how Brian De Palma came up with the scroll in "Star Wars" for George, and how they were all talking to each other about "How did you get this shot?" and "How did you frame this?" I think that is such a big part of what I love about communities of artists.
