Example Sentences

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The excitement fades from the mind as you turn away—it’s only art—but the experience leaves a moral residue of the strivingly good and true.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

I had to find it out—slowly, hungrily, painfully, strivingly, because I've always been such a fool.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is "all striving is vain," will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William