Did you mayhaps mean striving?
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- n. Plural form of striving.
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“And in what sense is it just to say that St. Thomas legitimated the "strivings" of human nature?”
“January 2, 2010 at 10: 24 am fabulous dream board. i love your use of colored paper and swooshiness. very inspiring! blessings on your new year and strivings! warmly, lisa jamie”
Blue Moon Dreamboard — Energy, Creativity and Movement in 2010 « Looking for Roots
“Everyday strivings in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: Problems arise when avoidance and emotion regulation dominate.”
The Huffington Post: Todd Kashdan: The Problem with Happiness
“I remember watching television images of the tsunami hitting Japan and wiping out everything in its path; I remember thinking, "It's all futile, all our worries and strivings -- and nature just wipes it out in seconds.”
The Huffington Post: Wes Isley: Natural Disasters: God's Anger, The End Times Or Just Reality?
“To my thrilled imagination it was the face of one who dwelt beyond all strivings of the elements and broody dissensions of the blood.”
“The well-rounded concision of his musings sets him apart from the epic strivings of modernists such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as well as from the free-associative collages of the New York School.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence
“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. from "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk.”
“The history, culture, and constitution of the American democracy were born of a unique blend of Enlightenment sensibilities and religious strivings.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou: 'Gods, Gays and Guns' (EXCERPT)
“No generation before the postwar, nuclear intelligentsia understood the universal strivings for freedom, and if not freedom, mere existence, in more universally shattering terms.”
The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left
“It will be found in identifying and understanding the strivings of middle-class people living in unfashionable tract suburbs, working-class city neighborhoods and small towns across the country.”
Town Vs. Gown, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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