Sentence examples for passionate attempt from inspiring English sources

His most ambitious portrayal of poverty, The Potato Eaters, is a passionate attempt to put the lives of poor country people into art.

The newly translated stories from Tolstoy's wife and son are "each a passionate attempt to undo the message of the original work", said the publisher.

He seems to enter into a mystic pact with his actors who join him in a passionate attempt to get as close to their subject as possible, to identify with characters and events as though they were reliving them not as mere imitators but as incarnations of those people and events.

"Mr. Kristof also has repeatedly gone to the killing fields of Darfur in a passionate attempt to stir the world to action, to make it, as he wrote late last month, "again a place where children play, rather than one in which they are thrown into bonfires".

His most passionate attempt to do so will be considered in the following section.

And then our discussion of his passionate attempt to rescue his country returns, obliquely, to the question of the mother he could not rescue.

He made repeated passionate attempts to win round the 1,000 or so members assembled in Manchester at the first AGM to be run under a one-member-one-vote system, which replaced the block vote method of the past.

Her passionate attempts to dignify Thelonious's life, to protect him, to say it's all right to spend the day sleeping if that's what you want or need to do… I'm sure this was her way of addressing an earlier injustice.

Perhaps, under new leadership, the powers that be at Microsoft conceded that, when it comes to mobile, the Windows platform and Surface lines, despite passionate attempts from within, wouldn't hold a candle to the current leaders in the mobile platform wars.

Eprile, a South African now living in the United States, "has written a novel that is not just clever but also a passionate fictional attempt to wake from a nightmare of historical complicity," Theo Tait wrote here.

With so many passionate pundits attempting to influence our kids, it's important that we educate them on safe political intercourse and the dangers of engaging in the process before they're ready.