Murat paused, then made an evident effort to turn the conversation to some less difficult subject.

These colonists had with evident effort united enough to facilitate his mission, and he had let them down.

With evident effort, he gathered himself, striving for courtesy.

It'll be better for me to speak plain," he said, with evident effort, "though it's hard work.

Then, with an evident effort, he turned to me.

They are an evident effort - perhaps at the behest of a producer?

Up she came, balancing the receptacle with no evident effort.

"This is the house," Maria was saying, speaking very distinctly in an evident effort to make herself understood at all costs.

Eventually mastering his feelings with an evident effort, he faced the Magistrate again.

Shara lifts her face to the camera with evident effort.