Sentence examples for sense of attempting from inspiring English sources

But Holbach is not a naturalist in the stricter sense of attempting to understand human beings in terms of the same laws that explain the rest of nature.

According to the first, using e (at t) has to be motivated by R. For R to be in force for S's use of e, S has to follow R in the sense of attempting to do what is in accordance with R. On the second construal, S has to accept R in some sense not requiring (all) particular uses of e to be motivated by R. Both of these would plausibly seem to require S to have certain intentional state(s).

Democrats "didn't want" in the sense of "attempted to negotiate while trying to figure out if the Republicans were crazy enough to pull the trigger".

The initial feeling of a Jurassic Park resonates: the sense of humans attempting to control, for profit, part of nature that is inherently uncontrollable.

Coote is, of course, a very different singer from Ferrier, and there was no sense of her attempting to copy her predecessor's interpretations.

My respect for Rachel's powers of storytelling is only redoubled by my sense of the absurdity of attempting to imitate her.

But as yet there is little sense of commitment to attempting a full-scale review.

It was a key error by the linesman, but it gave Liverpool something to rail against in the second half and they began with a sense of injustice, desperately attempting to cancel out Stoke's lead.

Working wonders within the compact, unusually high-walled Donmar space, Mr. Ashford creates a vivid sense of community without attempting the operatic overkill that marred London's last "Streetcar," in which a firm-jawed Glenn Close looked as if she could thump Iain Glen's fine-boned Stanley for keeps.

You're only displaying your sense of superiority by attempting to assign them a response more to your liking.

Beth, another student at Limpsfield Grange, has been diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance, a sub-set of autism, whereby she deals with her fears and creates a false sense of control through attempting to spurn authority.