Sentence examples for writing attempts from inspiring English sources

But her writing attempts a tone that you don't often hear in novels these days.

The writing attempts to develop weighty personal and political themes over 70 minutes, and sometimes strains to contain the forces it has unleashed.

His writing attempts to itself simulate the new conditions, capturing its novelties through inventive use of language and theory.

At the time of writing, attempts to contact Fingerprint Cards by telephone have been unsuccessful, but according to Reuters the company has denied the acquisition.

Despite the difficulty, the writer must somehow express the essence of a masterpiece, thereby achieving a kind of ekphrasis, in which the art of writing attempts to capture in words the essence and form of the visual art of painting.

Gregg Allman recorded "Melissa" primarily as a tribute to his brother, who adored the song; the song was written in 1967 and was one of the first he saved after dozens of writing attempts.

In the magazine, Gardner, who had practiced law before turning to writing, attempted to do something similar — except that there his "clients" were real people, already convicted and behind bars.

"After Hafez", she writes, "attempts an imitation of one of Hafez's most famous Ghazals, borrowing his radif and staying close to his conceits, but straying from the original metaphors".

As Sarah Shettleworth, one of the researchers involved in developing the area of comparative cognition, wrote: Attempts to investigate human-like processes in other species often begin with asking yes/no questions and designing pass/fail tests to answer them...

And then, in a sentence that today carries an awful poignancy, Browder writes: "Attempts to commit suicide are not uncommon".

Critics, he writes, "attempt to definitively assign value to some forms of comedy over others".