Word: valiant
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...reads as mysteriously pieced together. Lelyveld’s goals work at cross-purposes, leaving the reader confused and disappointed. “Omaha Blues” shows how difficult it is to both conjure a ghost and purge restless memories within a single text. The endeavor is a valiant one, but it would have been better served by reserving its disparate aims for independent ventures...
With the help of an accent coach, each of the actors made a valiant effort to maintain a British accent throughout. At times this was more successful than others, but the effort was commendable—especially considering the large number of lines most of the characters had to memorize...
...seniors Ashley Banfield and Nicole Corriero made a valiant attempt to capture the meaning, I realized I had found it—not in their description, but in their own personal hockey chronicle. Theirs is a story that can be summed in one simple sentence: this is Harvard women’s hockey...
Harvard, seeded fourteenth, put up a valiant effort in all three doubles matches...
...Albeit a highly compromised one. The man who reinvented the French left, and ultimately engineered its triumph in May, 1981, has always inspired harsh polemics. He was the hope of the left, but also the bourgeois prince who sold it out; the valiant resistance fighter, but also the Vichy regime bureaucrat. He was lauded as a friend of the Jewish people, but never denounced his long friendship with Vichy police chief Réné Bousquet, who helped round up Jews for deportation at the notorious Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris...