Sentence:  Our endeavor to <WSD>capture</WSD> even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival , that of the literal , factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  succeed in representing or expressing something intangible