Sentence examples for striving to justify from inspiring English sources
In Teaneck, the Garage Theater Group produces Deb Margolin's "Imagining Madoff," a 2010 drama that posits a Bernie Madoff striving to justify his actions to one of his victims (Oct . 25to Nov. 11).
Its celebration of an alternative lifestyle based on a fantastic panoply of useful and intriguing products had immense appeal to prosperous baby boomers who have so often striven to justify materialism as virtuous.
Unlike moral discourse, in which participants strive to justify norms and courses of action that accord due concern and respect for persons in general, ethical discourses focus on questions of the good life, either for a given individual ("ethical-existential" discourse) or for a particular group or polity ("ethical-political" discourse).
Once the affair is out in the open, you will strive mightily to justify yourself.
Mostly, though, he said he was striving too hard to justify a performance impossible to repeat.
Sons striving to outdo fathers.
He was striving to become.
We were striving to do that last year.
Striving to equal record storied W.A. Larned.
They are striving to be noticed.
