Sentence examples for striving after from inspiring English sources

Was he striving after that playground to impress a mistress?

Findings are discussed in the context of general challenges in striving after ecological validity in neuropsychology.

Happiness, he says, isn't just about feeling good, it's about the joy we feel while striving after our potential.

Boydell's music has a definite persona; it is international and, at the same time, distinctively Irish, without striving after Irishness.

Internalized motivation in turn predicted goal performance during the following week, which in turn predicted intentions to keep on striving after the study was over.

Here for the most part Mill appears as the disciple of David Ricardo, striving after more precise statements and reaching forward to further consequences.

It is an ideal to strive after".

As a writer, he strove after literary effect, and Jerome, writing a century later, praised the excellence of his style.

There's an effortlessness to what she does which is admirable, even if occasionally the wearability she strives after can make her shows seem tame.

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.

Mankind must devote itself to gradual social evolution, rather than strive after an illusory and impossible happiness in the immediate future.