Sentence examples for striving for effect from inspiring English sources

Where the narrator in "The Book of Evidence" was always striving for effect, the narrator in "Ghosts" quietly achieves it.

"Much American criticism, especially by academics, is always striving for effect, and using jargon to impress people.

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

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.

The British approach to Chekhov can sometimes be unduly literal, genteel and cloying, but it is possible to err in the opposite direction: overinterpreting, striving for effect at the expense of the text, privileging metaphor over the notion that the author is portraying something approximating to real life.

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.

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.

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

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.