What is "striver"

Usage examples of "striver".

Welt and Bryk were the respective leaders of the Keepers and the Strivers, for the time being allies against the Deemers.

This image of itself, it has communicated to the Intellect that contemplates it: thus all the striving is on the side of the Intellect, which is the eternal striver and eternally the attainer.

A great soldier and general, he was yet an earnest striver after peace, hating to refer to the doubtful decision of battle that which might be settled by any other means, and stirred always by a great pity, strange in such an age and in such a man, for lives poured out in war.

Were there other clients, bankers helping this same unfortunate striver with fiscal problems, clerics helping him over theological humps, engineers giving useful tips about his gas turbines?

She turned to see Jerad standing over his female striver with the dulled tip of his sword planted firmly at her throat.

Instead, he nudged Striver into an easy walk toward the crouching gnome.

Standing, as she now did, in the midway of the present, looking with single gaze on past and future, she saw at once the honest striver after good in his yesterday-life rise to his reward in the life of to-day, and the dishonest rich and powerful sitting in the high places of to-day cast down into the gutterways of to-morrow.

VALS research divides the American population into eight consumer groups: Actualizers, Fulfilleds, Achievers, Experiencers, Believers, Strivers, Makers, and Strugglers.

The quiet creatures who escape mishap Bear likeness to pure growths of the green sap: A picture of the settled peace desired By cowards shunning strife or strivers tired.

That striving frequently led to disputes and even war betwixt two strivers or striving peoples.

His name was Draferth and, unusually for the Outer Moot, he was a staunch and raucous member of the Strivers Faction.

Much more, then, Should one upon whose priceless presence here Such issues hang, so many strivers lean, Use average circumspection at an hour So critical for us all.

Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry of statesmen, professionals, and strivers of every persuasion, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away.

The only difference is that in these early days all the Democratic strivers are open and accessible to reporters instead of bubble-wrapped by image-sensitive handlers and cordoned off by the Secret Service.

In the Kussmaul clan, Galligan has created an unforgettable group of shiftless strivers, always just getting by and always looking for an edge, legal or not.