Sentence examples for passionately trying from inspiring English sources

We talked into the wee hours of the night with me challenging her cynicism, and with me, armed with profound philosophical and theological insight, passionately trying to convince her that she and her life were of immeasurable significance —but, to no avail.

"I've been passionately trying to convince the [Department of Defense] to just stop obsessing with that type of architecture," he says.

Another friend and I were passionately trying to convince him to quit his job as a store manager and start a sex toy startup.

But the contentious exchange, which came late in the afternoon, served as a kind of climax to a day in which Mr. Karas methodically and at times passionately tried to build a case that tied all four defendants to a terrorism conspiracy led by Mr. bin Laden and at the same time sought to undercut their defense cases.

The "cancer club" that I so passionately tried to turn down my membership to is now my place for safety, strength, and encouragement.

More interestingly, Lawrence McDonald was an integral part of a faction within Lehman Brothers that passionately tried in vain to stop the firm from heading down the road to destruction.

The three Democrats proposed ways to limit gun violence, laid out their views on how to repair relationships between police and the communities they serve, and spoke passionately of trying to create economic opportunities for disenfranchised young black men.

Yet, if a textual interpretation can be so altered by a single vote as to mean exactly the opposite of what it had officially been thought to mean, then surely it seems less like a disinterested interpretation than like a passionately held opinion trying to pass as a disinterested interpretation.

Stories complete in themselves but linked by threads of association or neighborhood or interest or family into a kind of imaginative collaboration that covers most of the last two centuries, always inhabited by characters passionately interested in trying to figure out how things work.

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It was then that he passionately denied he was trying to quit or get fired.