Sentences with phrase «attempts at glory»

Spurned on, I lifted myself out of the foam and gathered my board for another attempt at glory.

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At another level, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory reflects Balmer's attempts to come to grips with the meaning of his own fundamentalist past and to identify «those kernels of truth and insight into the human condition» that he suspects are embedded within the evangelical message but that have become distorted by consumerism and other corrosive elements of American culture.

Sherry not only reveals the names and identities of Greene's youthful tormentors, but argues that the suffering he experienced at their hands — and that in part led him to attempt suicide — yielded artistic material throughout his career, and perhaps most richly so in The Power and the Glory: «Into the lieutenant, the priest and the Judas went some of the insight into human nature gained from his experience with Carter and Wheeler, which had involved him in persecution, self - doubt, feelings of cowardice and the fear of betraying.»

However it's clear to me that the German international has enjoyed his time at Arsenal, despite a lack of major honours and that his only vision right now is to continue with Arsenal, in an attempt to return the glory days to the Gunners.

I haven't given a single thought to any allusions of UCL glory and would prefer to walk before we can run with a decent attempt at the PL.

The Falcons» most recent attempts at section glory came in three consecutive runs in Division II from 2007 - 09 where they lost the three games by a combined 15 points.

Everton have really missed you, and should Martinez fluke his way to 4th place at the first attempt, I am sure Bill Kenwright will come begging you to come back and lead them to Champions League glory.

Just weeks after winning the Premier League title in his first attempt, his penalty would rifle into the top of the net past Petr Cech, but unfortunately, a disappointing United career to follow would never again reach the lofty heights of his maiden term at Old Trafford, which culminated in Champions League glory at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.

Optical theorists» attempts to fully understand how glories work were unsuccessful until the 1980s, when physicist Moysés Nussenzveig at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil showed that the main cause is a process known as wave tunneling.

Those signature bits of wordplay are all but guaranteed to show up in this third installment in the surprisingly successful comedy series about all - female a cappella group the Barden Bellas, who reunite for a USO tour hoping to recapture some of their former glory after failing in their initial attempts at post-college life.

Superman's attempts at returning to his former glory take an unexpected turn in Greg Pak, Aaron Kuder and Ardian Syaf's «Action Comics» # 49.

And while there was an attempt at a 2016 game that was eventually cancelled by Interplay, it's possible that a new owner could bring this series back to its former «glory» as well.

Most of these Slinky - like pictures remind me of the miniature targets that Kenneth Noland was making at about the same time: both struck me as attempts to revisit former glories on a more salable scale but suffering from the weakness of old age.

Nothing is fixed, and there is liberation, mystery and glory in this, as Carrington's paintings, at their best, brilliantly attest... With their myriad characters, narratives and settings, her paintings suggest not only that art and the imagination can liberate our thinking, but also, by implication, that we make attempts to close down the imagination at every possible opportunity.

BlackBerry KEYone review: BlackBerry is still at it and there is a new phone out there, attempting to regain lost glory.