Sentence examples for try awfully hard from inspiring English sources

Honestly, I don't think anybody really thinks the Jets could get him, which doesn't mean that if he hits the open market – which I don't think will happen if he is healthy – they wouldn't try awfully hard.

-- Phil, Long Island, N.Y. A. Honestly, I don't think anybody really thinks the Jets could get him, which doesn't mean that if he hits the open market - which I don't think will happen if he is healthy - they wouldn't try awfully hard.

Vicki Hendricks tries awfully hard to be shocking, and she mostly gets away with it.

St. John's tried awfully hard, to shoot themselves out of the Big East tournament, the N.C.A.A. tournament, even out of Madison Square Garden.

Mario Van Peebles tries awfully hard to disguise the heavy-handed messages he has ladled into "We the Party," a high school movie that he wrote and directed and filled with his relatives.

With its riffraff and swells, its jerky camerawork and gritty texture, the British film "London to Brighton" tries awfully hard to pass itself off as a slab of rancid naturalism.

Now the universities are committed only to showing that they're trying awfully hard to recruit the working classes; targets have been forsaken, and the universities will publish their provisional top-up fees this year in anticipation of - not waiting on - Harris approving them.

But this is a movie that tries awfully hard to be reasonable, in a socially conscious Depression-era way, that wants us to understand, as Jesse's eulogist says in the final scene, that "he wasn't altogether to blame for what his times made him".

He tried awfully hard to get things right.

Shapiro is a disgrace to collegiate athletics and a perfect example why, despite trying awfully hard, the NCAA will never fully be able to legislate on campuses the way it wants.

"We're working awfully hard on trying to find a white knight out there to make this last-ditch effort," the chief executive, Doug Townsend, said.