Langer's work has genuine charm, but, too often, photographs that strive for timelessness feel merely secondhand.
Across the Continent, he has been finding moments large and small that strive for nuance and details of everyday life.
The past few years have seen a proliferation of works that strive to give a fuller treatment of Rimbaud.
And even schools that strive to put more students in the yearbook can fall short of their goals.
The library profession grapples with this in discussions that strive to balance the traditional with the new territory confronting us.
Rather, they are, for the most part, more traditional journalists from organizations that strive to approach the news with objectivity.
It's sad but true: the Loire reds are destined to be overshadowed by wines that strive to be blockbusters.
No, those are merely inferior products that strive only to entertain people and fail at that mission.
The film grasps for credibility with scenes of a support group (featuring some real veterans) and cryptic voice-overs that strive for profundity but achieve only pretentiousness.
There are also the earnest, spiritual or philosophical bios, adult-yearbook quotations that strive to say something profound about society or the universe.
While Mr. Obama frequently criticizes the heated speech of cable news, he sees what he views as deeper problems in news outlets that strive for objectivity.
