Sentences with phrase «admirable effort»

And the rest of the cast turn in mostly admirable efforts.

A few A-listers did make admirable efforts to cede some of the spotlight to activists with deeper ties to movements for workplace and gender equity.

With very few exceptions (such as admirable efforts by the Genetics and Public Policy Center and the Virginia Commonwealth University), most polls on these issues have involved bare and solitary yes or no questions, and have neglected to dig beneath the most superficial of responses.

My meaning is that on the one hand, Macbeth is a completely admirable effort; its performances are rich, the directorial execution is spot on and Adam Arkapaw «s cinematography is dreamlike, almost painterly in a post-modernism meets heavy metal way.

In both cases, the films don't quite hit the mark like her earlier, more admirable efforts, The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Lost in Translation (2003), but that doesn't stop them from featuring at big international film festivals.

Madonna makes admirable efforts to infuse the proceedings with art, but this is clearly not her medium.

We make an admirable effort to pretend otherwise.

Despite some admirable efforts — and some not so admirable — past attempts to make football a motif for the faith have fallen somewhere between faintly amusing and hilarious.

Wheaton has made «demonstrable and admirable efforts» to promote diversity, wrote the six - person diversity committee.

Nick Calathes gave an admirable effort, and he did a good job of staying in front of Stephen Curry, but he just doesn't have the physical ability to make a difference while on the floor.

It was an admirable effort given the circumstances, but also made you appreciate what we get each week and what those who were on strike actually provide.

Unapologetically void of «jargon» and «dense political language», Edwards makes an admirable effort to cut through politicians» convoluted rhetoric and provide readers with information he perceives isn't readily accessible.

Resistance: Burning Skies is an admirable effort but ends of leaving a lot to be desired.

Maybe it's just impossible to build such an expansive game off of such a simple core concept, but this game certainly made an admirable effort to do so.

Yet despite the admirable efforts of Katja's friend and lawyer, Danilo (Denis Moschitto), it quickly becomes clear that the judicial process doesn't always result in justice being served.

An admirable effort, and one that distributor Artisan Entertainment needs to handle with kid gloves.

AoT2's Switch port is an admirable effort, but there are just too many concessions made to get it working.

While much of the entertainment in Whiplash easily goes to Fletcher mentally abusing the hell out of his students in an admirable effort to bring the best out of them, it is Miles Teller who will have you leaving the theater on cloud nine feeling like you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.

A admirable effort to recapture the suspense of earlier Agatha Christie adaptations.

It's an admirable effort, rather than one that will get the adrenaline pumping, with fine performances, albeit ones that seem muted amid the prevailing decorum of 19th - century Britain.

In an admirable effort to combat that, Sheridan has gotten the film to drop all association with The Weinstein Company and in stunningly little time.

Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada, is an admirable effort by Omega Force to put a fresh spin on an old formula.

Look at Kundun for instance — it only garnered four Oscar nominations in pretty insignificant categories, and you probably won't find anyone who will compliment the film any further than calling it an admirable effort.

The Next Cut makes an admirable effort to be timely and relevant, addressing the issues of today and the problems facing Chicago.

(Side note: Ubisoft's admirable efforts to include less - tired types of characters and stories has certainly helped the series feel fresh and interesting recently.)

There isn't much to say about it intellectually, but for a group of filmmakers who grew up making short films and finding themselves producing special effects and stop - motion animated sequences for films like Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, Killer Klowns from Outer Space is an admirable effort.

But the obligatory romantic subplot, absent from the source material, plays itself out ploddingly, and the admirable effort to create a female character for the films to make up for the dearth of such in the book is undercut by the one - dimensionality of Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly), an elf warrior who seems motivated entirely by the pursuit of love.

So, our one big educational bragging point in recent years may be due to admirable efforts... or bureaucrats blatantly manipulating the numbers.

In this case, a story about a 25 - year veteran teacher's admirable efforts to teach his U.S. History AP students about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is littered with pat phrases intended to score points against education reformers.

That is an admirable effort, but it does nothing for the tens of thousands of students going to school outside of Seattle.

The company is making an admirable effort to help students in poorer areas, which is the company's focus.

Meanwhile Trump's ascent into the White House bodes ill for one of the Obama Administration's most - admirable efforts: Holding districts accountable for overusing out - of - school suspensions and other harsh school discipline that put poor and minority children onto the school - to - prison pipeline, an important issue both on the education and criminal justice reform fronts.

With all of your help, we have been able to support North Shore's admirable efforts and aid in finding homes for numerous pets throughout the span of our partnership.

But it's 2018, and No Man's Sky has made admirable efforts to fix what it overpromised in the first place.

Admirable efforts to explain quirks of the game design as official tournament rules.

Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada, is an admirable effort by Omega Force to put a fresh spin on an old formula.

Silent Hill 5: Homecoming is an admirable effort to translate the cult - followed survival horror series Silent Hill into a game with more western appeal.

Need For Speed Payback tries to fix this and it's an admirable effort.

Project X Zone is an admirable effort and definitely won't be for everyone.

Chronicles, set across Ancient China, British Empire - era India and Revolutionary Russia, was an admirable effort to map Assassin's Creed into a side - scrolling stealth game.

While an admirable effort, I feel like the English lyric songs for Chrono Trigger were translated as they do not match the harmonics.

In some ways, they succeeded, and in others, they fell a little short in what is still an admirable effort.

Some of these games, like Eternal Champions and Primal Rage, had flaws, but gave an admirable effort, and some were just plain old garbage, like Kasumi Ninja and Survival Arts.

In addition, with the recent and alarming issues of eviction and proposed power plant sites, the realities of which have become unavoidable in the last six or seven weeks, we must acknowledge the admirable effort led by artists such as Deborah Masters, Eve Sussman, Kathleen Gilrain, and Jane Fine (where are the men?

Copyright didn't play a large part in the recent Canadian election (despite Michael Geist's admirable efforts), and it hasn't played much of a role south of the border either.

Despite MS's admirable effort to deprecate all the old operating system versions, it'll still be another 5 years before even most users are onto windows 10 +, if ever.

I think this app represents an admirable effort to bring an important Google service to Windows Phone and I'm sure more will follow.