Tracy's close friend Chester Erskine pinpointed his acting style as one of "selection"—he strove to give as little as was needed to be effective reaching "a minimum to make the maximum".
"No one who received wära wished to hold [them], the workers, store-keepers, wholesalers and manufacturers all strove to get rid of them as quickly as possible, for any person who held [them] was obliged to pay the tax.
Van Gaal's praise of Ribéry made sense, given the way that the winger, nowhere near as fluent or as swift as he can be, strove to provide a spark.
Mr. Gaidar (pronounced GUY-dar) rose to power as part of a generation that first strove to reform the Soviet Union from within but instead wound up presiding over its collapse.
Despite the reputation for self-indulgence that continues to cling to him, Kerouac was a reflective, vigilant artist who constantly, and consciously, strove to overcome his limitations -- the chief one being, as he saw it, his own self-critical temperament.
Overlooked by the snow-capped San Bernardino mountains, characters such as Dad Thomas and Ed Merrill - the "artist bee-keeper" - strove to create a desert utopia which, for three years, did well.
Both started their careers as humorists and, while never shedding that guise, increasingly strove for moral seriousness.
HONOLULU (AP) — Olivia Robello Breitha, who shared her story of exile as a leprosy patient on a remote peninsula of Molokai island and strove to dispel myths about the disease, died Sept. 28.
But as Iranians started longing for more freedoms, Mr. Abdi became one of the main theoreticians of a failed movement that strove to open up the political system and ease its rigid laws.
Far too many strove to live the life of a hidalgo.
