Sentence examples for strive for effect from inspiring English sources

It does not strive for effect, but lets the effect grow out of its situation.

Mr. Berlusconi, of course, is not the first modern Italian leader to strive for effect.

It is intense, but it's never melodramatic nor does it strive for effect.

Maxims and other pointed and epigrammatic phrases of the sort the ancient Romans called sententiae can become too sophisticated or can too obviously strive for effect.

She strives for effect and achieves it, although as a cry of alienation this solo needs more texture.

Instead of striving for effect in life and on the page, let's aim for the kind of candor she called "friendship".

Jones wins us over early on, and we warm to her voice — thoughtful, earnest, with a lifelong editor's aversion to the slightest striving for effect.

In his acting, there was no censorship, no conscious intervention: the response was immediate and real, without cynicism, calculation or any great striving for effect.

The event, presented by Young Concert Artists, included three works by young men striving for effect beyond their years, as well as two pieces by composers in their twilight, recalling youthful pleasures.

His chronic overstatement and striving for effect, a kind of forced informality (he calls Bernstein Lenny, Otto Klemperer Klemp) and a certain looseness in the handling of facts (in quick succession he implies a wrong year for the premiere of Mozart's "Magic Flute" and gives a wrong year for an important dinner party) make it hard to put much faith in any particular pronouncement.

He can be entertaining and insightful, but the book's charms are undercut by a striving for effect that turns out to be both grandiloquent and sloppy.This is undoubtedly a result of being rushed a problem which also mars "Blowout in the Gulf" and "In Too Deep".