Are we now a horde of individuals driven by self-interest, striving for life's lottery win, the big break.
Human beings "strive in life not to do what they think right, but to call as many things as possible, their own".
And perhaps the biggest recent advance in smoking cessation, the nicotine patch, is itself a badge of compromise, an admission that many smokers need a habit to lean on, temporarily or perhaps indefinitely, as they strive for life without.
But this claim must be qualified; it is not moral to strive for life and health in an unjust way.
Lawrence depicts colorful masses in motion, striving to transcend life's uncomfortable and ugly circumstances.
Otherwise, you spend your life striving for some dream that might not even be your own.
I'd been striving my whole life for the best score, the best job, the best book contract.
His last album, Nerbu Message, concluded with the song Wake Up Australia, something Rrurrambu had spent his adult life striving for.
Striving to capture life in the outback, Mr. Kotcheff prepared for some scenes by releasing extra houseflies and spraying red dust.
Although he was completely blind by 1840, he continued to lead an active political life, striving for the liberal government that he had so long envisioned.
