I have taken stabs at making a decent small painting from time to time, but my natural inclination and disposition since I was a boy was to paint larger than life, to feel my brush strokes travel and explore the arc and extent of my reach. (artdealmagazine.blogspot.com.es)
Robert Redford and Kevin Costner earned Oscars for their first stabs at taking the helm, «Ordinary People» and «Dances With Wolves.» (thewrap.com)
In The Power Surge Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations takes an excellent first stab at making sense of America's new energy resources.... (cfr.org)