Sentences with phrase «attempts fell flat»

Part of the play in Boulder was to lure in neighboring towns to join their campaign, but attempts fell flat with only San Miguel County (Telluride) and Boulder County joining the city of Boulder in accepting the D.C. organization's offer.

Not exact matches

How come one approach got hundreds of people to spread the word digitally while my younger attempts fell completely flat?

Home Capital's attempts at messaging fell flat, too.

Attempts to connect on a basis of something that's ultimately subjective can fall flat if they don't ring true.

The company has been struggling with weak demand for its fitness trackers, and its first attempt at a proper smartwatch fell flat.

Your attempt to mock me falls, therefore, really, really flat.

As I don't carry enough theological weight to help my fellow believers in this debate with evidence or valuable dialog, and I was never able to cement myself in mt attempt to be an atheist, I can only say that when I tried to de-construct my belief system and embrace the scientific angle, it fell flat.

My first attempt was less than successful, the beautiful cookies fell flat, literally flat as pancakes but as they baked they did have the lovely smooth top and the «feet» that macarons are so famous for and they tasted amazing!

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Understanding what makes our children laugh is a hit and miss thing, and sometimes my attempts would fall flat, but I kept trying, using my intuition, to see what would work.

Attempts have been made to bring the two men together, sometimes through intermediaries, other times through direct talks, with all those efforts falling flat.

Yet the attempt to humanise some rather abstract messages by telling stories about ordinary people — such as «Gareth», whom Miliband had met while walking in Hampstead Heath — fell horribly flat.

So, any fundamental attempt to do politics with such facilities falls flat).

The increase awaits formal approval by Cuomo's labor commissioner, but it was endorsed Wednesday by a wage board that Cuomo convened after attempts to raise the minimum wage across the board fell flat in the legislature.

Labour's frequent attempts at direct class war — with references to Eton, the Bullingdon Club and various Tories» vast wealth — appear to have fallen flat.

Cuomo, invoking several stereotypes in his cringeworthy attempt at humor, fell flat with the Jews - can «t - dance joke, but that didn't stop the governor from adding to the thou shalt not list.

A friend or relative can tell you if your attempt at humor rings true or falls flat or if you are coming across positive and approachable or not.

The repetitive nature of the narrative - Gary evades, his pursuers get closer, etc - paves the way for a nigh interminable final half hour, and it goes without saying that Demange's many, many attempts to generate tension fall completely and hopelessly flat.

The port feels sloppy, the separation of online and campaign is mind - boggling and the repetition mixed with attempts to be more serious falls flat.

Hadid's continuing attempts at imbuing the proceedings with a lyrical, poetic feel fall hopelessly flat, to be sure, with the viewer eventually wishing that the filmmaker would just cut to the chase already.

But 2K's attempt to launch a new franchise, Battleborn, fell flat with reviewers and gamers.

He attempts to strike up a connection with local presidential campaign worker, Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) but when that falls flat, he takes it upon himself to change things and fails again in an assassination attempt on the Senator himself (Leonard Harris).

Overall the game makes a valiant attempt to be something «hip» and new but falls flat and ends up being what i can describe as a boring version of «The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt», if you think of playing this game and haven't played the Witcher 3, please take my advice and play that instead and whilst this may sound spiteful (take it as constructive criticism), anyone who give the game a 10 out of 10 is clearly blind to any of its many flaws.

There's little doubt, as well, that the movie's many attempts at comedy fall hopelessly (and aggressively) flat, with Kubrick's decision to seemingly give Sellers free reign contributing heavily to Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb's atmosphere of almost aggressive triviality (ie the majority of this stuff is distressingly free of relevance or even laughs).

Its irreverent quirkiness is something that no franchise can compare to, or even attempt to do without falling flat on its face.

I really found the «emotional» masterpiece of Button to fall completely flat and came off as artificial in its attempt to make the audience turn on the water works.

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.

By the late 1940s, several attempts at making Rebel Without A Cause had fallen flat.

Wirkola attempts to balance his over-the-top gore with gags, but the jokes often fall flat.

Though she only smells her armpits a few times and falls over a stack of chairs only once, the attempt to give Mary Katherine some back history and home life is incredibly flat.

Makes grand attempts and falls flat on all of them.

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

Joey King, who plays John's daughter Emily, does a fine job, but the attempts to make her anything more than a glorified hostage fall a bit flat (except for a hilariously on - the - nose bit where Emily saves the White House by performing her flag routine with the White House's flag on the lawn to wave off an airstrike; it's so dumb and goofy that it just lands on charming).

Or does it fall flat in its attempt to provide brain - teasing puzzles that are more frustrating than fun?

My guess is that it was all part of Black's nod to the genre he was attempting to honor, but it fell flat.

From daft gags like the dog poop walking itself to the toilets to seen - a-millions-times-before scenes like asking for a bigger penis the minute you realise you have powers, every attempt to save the movie with yet another joke falls flat.

Whereas attempts to vaguely humanize Bulger through go - nowhere side plots fall flat (weep for Dakota Johnson and her nothing role), Connelly's home life is more satisfyingly fleshed out.

The Duplass brothers attempt to create another sympathetic family unit in Jeff, erectile Who Lives at Home but their latest falls flat without the depth of its predecessor.

The script has a penchant for nasty, lad's - mag humour, while attempts to play on timely themes of privilege versus poverty fall flat thanks to a crass, reactionary depiction of working - class life.

Similarly, attempts to humanize the conflict by zeroing in on Logan's efforts to improve his strained relationship with his daughter fall flat, largely because Eckhart's default mode is an unconvincingly expressed controlled outrage.

Whilst the attempt at launching The Dark Universe franchise with 2017's The Mummy fell flat with critics and audiences alike, the tie - in game looks to be much more promising.

From there, the movie spins into a clumsy series of gang mishaps and attempts at emotional moments that fall flat.

There is also a weak attempt to comment on the working conditions of manual laborers, and it just falls flat.

The doc's attempt to play out like a conspiracy thriller falls flat; Scahill's overly serious narration combined with Rowley's attempt to make him look like a martyr don't work well when seeing innocent people get slaughtered.

Sadly, attempts to rekindle the pathos of T2 fall universally flat.

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

And the whole thing is executed with such a staggering over-seriousness that even when it attempts moments of levity, they almost always fall flat.

There is some attempt at humorous banter during the levels (provided by the voice talent from the movie), but most of it falls pretty flat.

The filmmakers» most obvious attempt at satirical bite is the inclusion of Samuel L. Jackson as right - wing TV host Pat Novak (of, ahem, «The Novak Element»), but his exposition - heavy scenes drag and fall comedically flat.