Significados de spasmodic efforts em inglês

Among the spasmodic efforts at reform made under Louis XVI.

A few spasmodic efforts were made to carry on, but the light-heartedness was gone.

The pair watched its spasmodic efforts at escape with a great deal of gusto.

But these spasmodic efforts of the democrats speedily failed.

You think of throwing off your clothes by one or two spasmodic efforts,-leaningin the intervals against the bedpost.

The man, by spasmodic efforts, holds the boat against the wind for a minute, and then loses his control.

Freeze's drawing-room hours on end, glowering at Miss Davidson in a silence broken by spasmodic efforts at forced talk.

My elder brothers, after a few spasmodic efforts, gave up all hopes of me-theyeven ceased to scold me.

There have been many of these, but with all allowance for spasmodic efforts, the general drift has been always downward.

For many years there have been sporadic and spasmodic efforts to extend the influence of Buddhism or other Indian cults.

It had been, by and large, a singularly speechless day, which my spasmodic efforts at entertainment had failed to cheer.

It is by no weak, sickly, faint-hearted, lukewarm, languid, and spasmodic efforts that the cause is to be kept alive.

During the first two or three years he occasionally had periods of passionate remorse, and made spasmodic efforts toward better things.

Even our spasmodic efforts at reform fail ludicrously for lack of leaders unaffiliated with "the thing to be reformed."

He was seated on the ice, making spasmodic efforts to smile, but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance.

Evidently the work of a scholar, it indulges in none of those spasmodic efforts of eloquence which are the joy of the newspaper correspondent.