attempting

[attempting]

To attempt is to make an effort. You may attempt to read a book, but if you fail, no harm. If you attempt to jump from one building to the next and fail . . . . Ouch.

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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Attempt


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Usage Examples

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

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Other Usage Examples

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

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