Sentence examples for tragic efforts from inspiring English sources

If you were alive in the 80s, you followed Yosser Hughes's tragic efforts to find work and hang on to his family.

She is far less forgiving of Fannie Hurst, author of the best-selling 1933 novel "Imitation of Life," about a young black girl's tragic efforts to pass as white.

As he trains for the race, Mr Murakami muses on his tragic efforts to outpace ageing, in a doomed bid to reduce his rising race times.A self-confessed oddball, Mr Murakami is a peculiar memoirist.

His tragic efforts, however, were consistently ridiculed by contemporaries: when Cibber in the role of Richard III made love to Lady Anne, the Grub Street Journal wrote, "he looks like a pickpocket, with his shrugs and grimaces, that has more a design on her purse than her heart".

… Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue… For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity.

If they ever read this book, which they won't, they would probably put their hands to their throat in the gesture known to German gays as "the necklace of pearls", roll their eyes, and say what we always say of a tragic effort all round – "Pur-lease".

Without rehearsing every sorry misstep in the hapless saga of West's tragic-comic effort to prevent North Korea from satisfying its nuclear ambitions, we may observe one recurrent contribution to this 20-year failure: a seemingly overpowering desire to treat North Korea as the state we would like it to be, rather than as the state it actually is.

"The secretary general is concerned about the emerging pattern of killings of high profile personalities in Guinea-Bissau," the United Nations said in a statement, adding that "these criminal acts are a tragic setback for efforts to restore the rule of law and democratic processes in the country".

I have accumulated many tragic stories of efforts to lose weight.

As for Ivy, Nina calls her efforts "tragic" and MK thinks Ivy "pretty consistently bites off more than she can chew".

During this phase (days to weeks after the tragic event) major efforts were undertaken to prevent and treat complications.