Sentence examples for rarely striven from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, the Queen has rarely striven to win hearts and minds, which comes with the consequent risk of losing them.

Soho used to be seedy, and seediness is one authentic feature developers rarely strive to preserve.

Beauty is a double-edged sword -- what we admire in others is rarely what we strive for in ourselves.

Because of the relative stability of men's social rank, they are rarely forced to strive for better control of their opportunities for social lives.

Encores!, which presents rarely heard American musicals in concert format, has striven to allow audiences to hear vintage shows as they originally sounded.

Doctors and nurses are human after all: They strive for – but rarely achieve – perfect care.

One of the best movies you probably didn't see last year, the documentary "NANKING" (8 p.m. Tuesday, Cinemax), combines terror and heroism in a way Hollywood often strives for and rarely achieves.

Balance is something to strive for but rarely achieved on daily basis.

In a way it still is, as it acheived that perfect balance of intimacy and that eerie sense of danger, in the way that most parties strive for, but rarely ever achieve. .

The journalists whose questions they strive to evade rarely call their bluffs or press hard for detailed elaboration lest they look too partisan or pushy to a media-wary public.

But the dissonant music heard between scenes suggests the production is also striving for a darker complexity it rarely achieves.