Sentence examples for strove to emulate from inspiring English sources

There is no heightened polish here, no solid, utterly dependable, old-masterish, browny dullness of the kind that Joshua Reynolds so strove to emulate with his treacly, undryable bitumen.

He particularly strove to emulate the British musical theatre singer-songwriter and actor Anthony Newley, whose vocal style he frequently adopted, and made prominent use of for his 1967 debut release, David Bowie (to the disgust of Newley himself, who destroyed the copy he received from Bowie's publisher).

Among them was Burt Lancaster, whose example as his own stunt man Lee strove to emulate.

But his most important role model and father figure was the autocratic bandleader and trombonist Tommy Dorsey, whose long-lined phrasing and velvety timbre he strove to emulate.

In the nineteen-nineties, those days of peace and prosperity and Pax Americana, Aaron Copland (1900-90) was the beau ideal whom young American composers strove to emulate.

This became increasingly important as the Abbey strove to emulate the Gate, where Mac Liammóir was delighting audiences with his mise en scène.

hopefuls wants to emulate OpenTable.

"We need to emulate Tunisia.

You want to emulate your heroes.

Not something to emulate.

College students want to emulate these people".