All 5 Uses of
endeavor
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- These same men admire his sincerity of purpose, and are willing to forgive much to honest endeavor which is doing something worth the doing.†
Chpt 3 *
- It is easy for us to lose ourselves in details in endeavoring to grasp and comprehend the real condition of a mass of human beings.†
Chpt 8endeavoring = trying or attempting
- Finally, there are the varying forms of religious enterprise, of moral teaching and benevolent endeavor.†
Chpt 9
- On the other hand, another type of mind, shrewder and keener and more tortuous too, sees in the very strength of the anti-Negro movement its patent weaknesses, and with Jesuitic casuistry is deterred by no ethical considerations in the endeavor to turn this weakness to the black man's strength.†
Chpt 10
- But to doubt the worth of his life-work,—to doubt the destiny and capability of the race his soul loved because it was his; to find listless squalor instead of eager endeavor; to hear his own lips whispering, "They do not care; they cannot know; they are dumb driven cattle,—why cast your pearls before swine?"†
Chpt 12
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted