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Based on Lawrence Thornton's novel, Hampton strives for a part human, part mystical response to a brutal regime, bent on repression.
The basic narrative script of an apocalypse strives to reach the ultimate closure, while at the same time opening up the space of sequentiality.
She also strives to situate the tondo within a representational tradition and in relation to specific social and cultural practices.
The Zehetmair Quartet has a huge tonal palette available, and uses it all as it strives to make Schumann's scores live for us.
He constantly strives to increase his abilities and his understanding of the obstacles around him.
Any community that meets resistance always strives harder to prove its worth and value to society.
Despite the lackluster dialogue, the cast strives mightily to bring some sincerity to their roles.
She knew all too well that the man with the bigger reach strives to avoid fighting in close like a veritable plague.
To them, he is just another nondescript resident who strives hard for a square meal a day.
A monarchy which strives to avoid political controversy now finds itself inadvertently at the heart of it.
Knowing that the book is devoted to obscenity, the viewer strives to make these recalcitrant shapes congeal into something naughty.
The game strives for a certain degree of realism rather than dazzle, and in that I think it has succeeded.
The surgeon also strives for a functional repair of the muscles and an aesthetically pleasing approximation of the skin edges.
Which brings up the point of polar opposites co-existing, and hence the harmonious balance which the world strives to keep is always unbalanced.
Poverty and wars are becoming the order of the world threatening to demolish the very edifice patriarchal capitalism strives to protect.
He writes and strives for reforms in society and at one point, lands up in jail.
The method strives to eliminate conflict by removing the deviated language of passion from the child's intellectual growth.
Providing an explanation of behavior in terms of understandable epistemological conditions or causes subtly strives to exculpate the agent.
He has made the best of his time and strives to better himself and be a positive influence on others.
There is a telling difference between a band that strives to be mysterious and one that achieves mystique.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It bids a man, if he strives after perfection, abandon the world and lead a life of monkhood.
In many places it strives to famish them, or takes delight in annoying them.
And this is another spell against which the shedder of blood for ever strives in vain.
He vainly strives to rally under the fire of imprecation, but it is too late.
Everything strives forwards, forwards, dragging the resister along with ecstatic power.
It is a value, but not in the sense that man first appreciates it and subsequently looks for it and strives to actualise it.
Science strives to express itself in mathematic terms, and this paper is written with that end in view.
Dragged backwards behind the female, the poor fellow strives to uncouple himself.
Notice that the fanatic or crowd-man always strives to universalize his own moral dilemmas.
The soul believes it, and this is the goal she strives for both now and hereafter.
And this is why she strives to embroil your country with Japan and Mexico.
With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about.
Nowadays, when one strives to penetrate things one is confounded.
But, always, the envious cloud strives to gather again across the streak of celestial azure.
It is to gain the peak the climber strives, not to possess it.
Poetry strives after concreteness and vividness of expression.
It strives to seal forever the fate of those it has enslaved.
Learning, the lawgiver, strives to hold it back upon the past.
Age, especially when it strives to be self-reliant and cheerful, finds much consideration among the poor.
Fresh, hip, classy, and edgy, GAWK Talent strives to focus not simply on a model's appearance, but her and his overall personality and humanness as well.
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