Sentence examples for revolutionary attempt from inspiring English sources

Her Seven Easy Pieces was a revolutionary attempt to rethink high fashion, starting from the point of view of a modern woman.

In a revolutionary attempt at realism, elements of the game are illustrated with equal attention to detail: the game's numerous characters and interiors are all painstakingly rendered, regardless of their relevance to the main story.

Black Gifted and Whole is a revolutionary attempt to change the narrative of Black gay men across the world.

A climax was reached in the spring of 1866, when Dmitry Karakozov, a young revolutionary, attempted to kill the emperor.

Like Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr., Obama positioned himself as a conservative revolutionary -- attempting to re-create our country by reasserting the traditional moral principles that gave it birth.

Reviewers relished Miller's playful treatment of his ghoulish subject, but they also recognized the clearing away of bones as a metaphor for revolutionary attempts to start history afresh.

There have been far fewer "revolutionary" attempts to transform teachers than to just entirely replace the education experience.

Cuba was then the setting for We Were Strangers (1949), an atmospheric account of revolutionaries' attempt to overthrow the government, which starred Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.

The explicit ideals of the French Revolution are the Enlightenment ideals of individual freedom and equality; but, as the revolutionaries attempt to devise rational, secular institutions to put in place of those they have violently overthrown, eventually they have recourse to violence and terror in order to control and govern the people.

El Salvador's violent present has its roots in a brutal civil war that began in 1979, when Communist revolutionaries attempted to overthrow a US-sponsored military junta that had seized power.

Readers could hardly miss his description of how the impulse for emancipation turned into organized, rational murder as the rebel-become-revolutionary attempted to order an absurd universe.