Sentence examples for wanton attempt from inspiring English sources

The mixture of the mundane with spiritual matters by no means reflected some wanton attempt at seeking picturesque effects.

AS certain trees burst into bloom in spring, their pollen wafts through the air in a wanton attempt to reach receptive blossoms.

Not showing the clinical strikes of the Israelis as compared with the wanton attempt to take any Israeli life is disgusting.

Yet this is neither a misunderstood masterpiece nor a wanton misstep – rather it is a striking attempt to tell an exotic story in a down-to-earth environment that deserves praise for its singularity of vision, even as it runs the risk of ridicule.

They proudly displayed pictures of some of the wanton police brutality on their website and, in an attempt to rewrite history (and the Walker Report's findings of a "police riot"), trumpeted that "the time has come that the Chicago Police be honored and recognized for their contributions to maintaining law and order--and for taking a stand against Anarchy...

He attempts to have Beatrice arrested as a wanton harlot.

Fantastical plot devices aside, Ishiguro would characterize his novel as an extended metaphor for the way social memory functions -- be it the way a nation tries to forget a war, or a married couple attempts to recall the details of their wanton first dates.

Superintendent Julia Pendry said officers had come under sustained attack and condemned "acts of wanton vandalism, wanton violence" by protesters.

A century and a half after it first played out, Ahab's wanton chase was evoked in the "war on terror," and the attempts to pursue an apparently uncatchable foe, even as it sourced an epic designed to reflect America's first imperial venture — the getting of the oil that lit and lubricated the Western world.

He warned that Jefferson's attempts to dismantle his banking system "would be one of the most wanton and flagitious acts that ever stained the annals of a civilized nation".

It's a cyclical process, and I find community attempts to preserve or curate, say, the remnants of the Lower East Side schmatta trade as unnatural as wanton overdevelopment.