strive

To have someone who has confidence in you, someone who believes in what you do, not only as a player but just who you’re striving to become as a person.

But they are striving “to shine bright like a diamond” and be happy, and we love them for it.

People with eating disorders can become competitive and perfectionistic, striving to be the “thinnest” in any group of sufferers.

Striving to be evocatively mysterious, Eyrie is in the end merely mystifying.

Braff is striving to convey a poignant blend of pathos and humor here, but his sort of striving is a form of cheating.

In its place came something which, striving to fuse Urdu and Telugu, seemed to devalue both.

I was a poor boy, and I strove for learning, strove hard, and found it worth the striving.

I remained silent, striving vainly to frame some innocent question which should solve for me the problem of who and what she was.

The striving to rise above all individualism was another ideal which a later period revived.

He went along by her side walking heavily, striving to conceal his hands.

Mrs. Bindle's lips tightened, as if she were striving to restrain the angry words that were eager to leap out.