Sentences with phrase «attempts at humor»

Some attempts at humor — as Plato, Hobbes, and Aristotle explain — rely upon putting others below ourselves (and often involve themes such as racism, sexism, and homophobia).

... appreciated your attempts at humor as well!

This means losing the fancy typefaces, images, attempts at humor and wacky layouts.

Avoid using cliches and flattery, and keep attempts at humor to a minimum.

Your cover letter needn't be overly formal, but it should avoid any attempts at humor and you shouldn't make any assumptions about the recruiter.

Ignore my poor attempts at humor (and fear of a connected future).

One tip: «Attempts at humor usually fall flat.»

Fearing such an onslaught of April foolish news, some legal bloggers opted to take the high ground, such as David Giacalone, avoiding «lame attempts at humor.»

Along with this explicit anti-soda tax ad, there were a number of ads for soda and junk food — Coke, Pepsi, Doritos, and Snickers all made their usual attempts at humor to convince us to (continue to) eat and drink crap.

Where movies like The Fast and the Furious don't take themselves too seriously, and much of the entertainment value comes from the sheer ridiculousness of it all, Payback takes itself far too serious to be enjoyable and the moments that it doesn't come off as hacky attempts at humor and pot shots at popular culture.

While some games like «BMX XXX» make weak, flailing attempts at humor, Darkened Skye consistently pulls off laugh - out - loud dialog.

If you never get tired of the basic ideas at the core of every resource - based strategy game, don't mind unnecessarily cute (and occasionally lame) attempts at humor, and can get past some minor targeting issues then World could work to fulfill that tiny niche of XBLA resource management games.

In a lesser game, the constant narration and attempts at humor would eventually fall flat.

I also liked the attempts at humor, since I think part of videogame adaptations kinda lack a bit of making fun of themselves (intentionally).

The few attempts at humor fall flat on their face, and the squad banter is utterly lifeless.

I thank you for giving a shit about the world and about me, for laughing at my attempts at humor, and for cheering me on as I try to convince two feral cats that humans are indeed worth loving.

Some authors start their query letters with attempts at humor, but most of these letters are quickly tossed aside.

The direction is sub-sitcom flat, the attempts at humor are embarrassing and all the actresses are wasted.

Green drops any and all attempts at humor whenever the band of warriors encounters a villain.

There is a dark beauty that occasionally escapes, only to be squashed by clumsy and completely unnecessary attempts at humor.

The ludicrous amount of devastation that this thing causes allows Emmerich to have it both ways: It's widespread enough that he can say it's definitely bigger than the last time, and it's impersonal enough that every other scene can be played for strained attempts at humor.

Filling in the air time of this wacky premise are nonstop vulgarities (worse than Superbad, pervasive drug use (not as bad as Half - Baked) and some of the most infantile attempts at humor not seen since the misunderstood Freddy Got Fingered.

The main characters do a lot of talking, with few attempts at humor in their dialogue.

Most, if not all, of the film's attempts at humor derive from Red's antics and his wariness of modern life, yet the jokes (always in Duvall's favor) are devoid of feeling and waste thematic conflict on superficial gags.

Only the sheer randomness factor could actually merit a chuckle; it kills the joke to know that they could only muster half - assed attempts at humor for each scene.

Jerry Bruckheimer's dusty attempt to reboot the classic vigilante story suffers from a bloated and schizophrenic script, racism, lame attempts at humor, excessive violence, gratuitous vomiting — and that's just in the first hour.

The script strikes - out with most attempts at humor, except in a few scenes involving Arkin.

But, as evidenced in Scream 3, Kruger isn't much of a comedy writer, and the failed attempts at humor end up taking viewers out of the increasingly complicated story rather than making it more enjoyable.

Weak attempts at humor provide a few chuckles but overall this screenplay falls flat and is predictable at almost every turn.

The World's Fastest Indian unabashedly tries to get on your good side with its easygoing tempo and some corny attempts at humor, but Hopkins is so charismatic in his approach, whatever he tries to sell, we'll certainly buy.

The movie is filled with spectacular special effects and a booming musical score from Michael Giacchino (Jurassic World / Star Trek Into Darkness), but unfortunately suffers from a convoluted plot, poor attempts at humor, mediocre dialogue, and below average acting performances.

«There are attempts at humor throughout, which actually seem to hit more than they miss.

Much of the film's attempts at humor stem from lip - synching to Motown tunes (a la Hope Floats) and dressing the kids up in costumes at every opportunity.

There is a look and feel of television all over the production, from the lighting, costumes, and even in the attempts at humor.

The film is also plagued by poor attempts at humor and some truly awful performances, none more so than Eddie Redmayne as the eldest of the royal siblings.

There isn't much to miss in this mix of extensions and all - out deletions: there is more of the family talent show, a few clear attempts at humor that falter, a variety of small moments between Dan and his daughters, and a small taste of a Dan voiceover that was intended to span the entire film.

The bulk of the picture's pathetic attempts at humor revolve around contrasting buff Bob's bravery with weak - kneed Calvin's cowardice.

A few light attempts at humor, particularly two scenes with Nick Frost as a pawn shop operator, don't gel with everything else.

Unlike most mainstream Hollywood attempts at humor that touches the heart, I never knew what was coming next.

Many people felt that his attempts at humor were in bad taste, and the host later apologized.

Other lame attempts at humor involve sexual peccadilloes.

Practically all of the attempts at humor fall flat, particularly Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster, who adds nothing.

Gomez - Rejon also forces way too many attempts at humor into the story, especially from over-the-top supporting cast members Nick Offerman and Molly Shannon.

Such shtick at least marks attempts at humor, unlike the strangely aimless dialogue.

But I digress, the problem this film has, outside of some very ugly, vile, crass attempts at humor, is the fact that it just isn't funny enough to be considered a comedy.

Belial's speeches are littered with poor attempts at humor, and writing that is more repetitive than the gameplay.

And unfortunately, that's where the magic ends, because the rest of the film makes many of the same mistakes as its predecessors, with plenty of bad dialogue, poor attempts at humor, and a laughably bad performance by Johnny Whitworth.

Kevin Smith doesn't ever really commit to whether he thinks everything is a joke or not and gets mixed up with some French Canadian humor that falls flat on its face but it's the sharp juxtaposition between the botched attempts at humor and the barbaric visual horror onscreen that makes Smith's body transmogrification so fucking fucked up.

Considering this came out in the post-Scream era there's still some knowing winks and poor attempts at humor sprinkled throughout.

In doing so we lose the attempts at humor and get a sequel that's more in touch with the series horror roots.