Sentence examples for strove to return from inspiring English sources

In The Octopus and other novels he strove to return American fiction, which was then dominated by historical romance, to more serious themes.

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".

Exiled tycoon to return?

Select items to return.

Dutra returned Brazil to respected democratic freedoms and strove to improve relations with the United States by clamping down on Brazil's communists.

Far too many strove to live the life of a hidalgo.

Mr. Erickson also campaigned for buildings that strove to maintain a human scale.

Mr. Zedillo, mindful of that history, strove to make the economy more institutional than individual.

Yet all three strove to unite Duchamp's radicalism with a visual opulence descended from Matisse.

Mr. Dodd's aides and White House officials all strove to say that he was not pushed to this decision.

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the park's creators, strove to create this illusion; the reality of Central Park is overwhelmingly artificial.