I think it makes you feel more confident, when you make an effort to look good.
But this campaign will make the effort around the budget plan look modest, say many close to the planning.
With Thomas, she'd wondered if her efforts might look pathetic to someone a year away from earning a doctor's income.
His pieces from the second half of the 1990s represented a conscious effort "to look towards the light", in the composer's words.
In that company the Tavianis' first efforts could only have looked ordinary.
Your first effort may well look like a rag doll, but this is quite adequate to begin with.
"But any efforts against Iraq will not look like what we did in Afghanistan."
Eventually the effort looked at 300 buildings before settling on the area that would become today's historic district.
Taste should broaden if you really make an effort to look.
She stood up with an effort, her face still very pale, looking suddenly rather lost.