The phrase "strive after" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to make an effort to achieve or obtain something. Example: She constantly strives after success, always pushing herself to do better.
It is an ideal to strive after".
Muhammad's revelations from God were not all-encompassing, even in his own time, and most Muslims have had many other things to worry about and strive after.
But his favorite writer of all was Thoreau, and we printed a Thoreau passage on the funeral program that read, in part, 'There was an artist... who was disposed to strive after perfection..
But his favorite writer of all was Thoreau, and we printed a Thoreau passage on the funeral program that read, in part, 'There was an artist... who was disposed to strive after perfection...
Ms. Glück's poems survive, as she has survived, through an unflinching analysis of her own life, not in order to wallow in self-pity but to strive after a kind of intensely self-critical honesty.
'In the end, we lose the ability to enjoy the simple life at all and live entirely in a vortex where we strive after one goal after another, where impatience and anxiety rule.' Thompson agrees that this is a fair description of her life: 'I was living a lifestyle where personal success was elevated above pretty well everything else.
Was he striving after that playground to impress a mistress?
By making his hero a mathematician, Banville can play with the theme of human striving after infinity in ingenious ways.
Happiness, he says, isn't just about feeling good, it's about the joy we feel while striving after our potential.
Here for the most part Mill appears as the disciple of David Ricardo, striving after more precise statements and reaching forward to further consequences.
Du Bois's faith in the uplifting force of so-called high culture, which mirrors the Aldridge family's striving after Shakespeare and Wagner, now has an antiquated air.
