Sentences with phrase «desperate attempts»

Turist (Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, 2014) A near - disaster and its aftermath begets a crisis of faith for two vacationing couples, whose increasingly desperate attempts to address what happened are (despite a florid final act) nothing short of mesmerising.

Whenever I see phrases like «equal - opportunity offender» or «skewers all sides» or «something to offend everyone» in a movie review, I fear what it really means is that the filmmakers are spineless flip - floppers, pandering to the audience with desperate attempts to please everybody by insulting everybody.

Since then, there have been rumblings that McDonald's might actually bring it back, and Roiland himself said the fast food chain promised to send him a batch of it in the near future, after he himself made some desperate attempts to track it down himself.

After driving Leonard and Penny crazy by his desperate attempts to remember the name of a song stuck in his head, Sheldon has a revelation when he realizes why.

His desperate attempts to fit in are usually met with derision.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

His ability to use slapstick while keeping a straight face is impressive, engaging in pratfalls without them coming across as desperate attempts to create laughs when none can be found.

After some desperate attempts to hide my curves underneath long coats and wide shirts, I now decided to just rock them.

After some desperate attempts to hide my curves underneath long coats and wide shirts, I now decided to just...

Such are the lyrics of Broadway's famous musical Fiddler on the Roof, about Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his desperate attempts to maintain his Jewish traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives.

Desperate attempts to lose weight can be so frustrating and create a real stress in our lives.

This means that the body, in its desperate attempts to be able to meet the demands of training, begins to sacrifice its health.

Desperate attempts to lose weight can be so frustrating and...

Days at the retreat are spent sitting inside a giant meditation hall, totally barren except for the ground, which is scattered with pillows, blankets, and meditation stools — desperate attempts by students to find at least minimal comfort during the long days of meditation spent sitting on the floor.

And, if you're one of the millions of people who feel like you haven't quite discovered your purpose yet, it can be incredibly frustrating to see some people off creating the lives of their dreams while the rest of us change jobs, relationships, and locations in desperate attempts to finally figure out what we're here to do.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

Despite desperate attempts to reestablish contact by Roscosmos and ESA, the craft remained mute and its orbit degraded until the spacecraft plummeted into the ocean off southern Chile.

Instead of admitting error, «members of the group sought frantically to convince the world of their beliefs,» and they made «a series of desperate attempts to erase their rankling dissonance by making prediction after prediction in the hope that one would come true.»

«Such reports dwell on the desperate attempts by terrorists to use Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) or suicide bombs to sustain their scare tactics and continue to spread terror in the minds of the people.

«It is just the latest in a string of desperate attempts by the Tories to portray themselves as animal - friendly,» she said.

«Central New Yorkers won't be fooled by his desperate attempts to hide from his radical and well documented position on this issue.»

Shadow home secretary David Davis said dangerous prisoners had been released «as a direct result of overcrowding in prisons and the government's desperate attempts to deal with these problems of their own making».

Altschuler aides dismiss the findings as «desperate attempts» to depress the challenger's fundraising.

Mr. Tetteh, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, said since Dr. Rawlings decided to join politics, some people are bent to frustrate her and the efforts to link her to the political heritage of her parents, is one of the desperate attempts.

Raucous shouting matches during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons; smearing and jeering by the overwhelmingly right - of - centre popular press; and desperate attempts to give inconsequential policy distinctions more importance than they deserve are features of the landscape.

The group observed that Mr. Naabu's incessant accusation and desperate attempts of inciting Konkombas against the current government will not be tolerated any longer and, therefore, must put a seal cap to them.

That would make things too easy, and stop us from amusing them with our desperate attempts to please them.

In a desperate attempts to find a solution you may end up taking everyone's advice, trying everything and feeling like nothing is working.

On the flip side, don't try to «buy» your step - children's love or try desperate attempts to get them to like you.

After a month of desperate attempts to up my supply - supplements, pumping, everything - the lactation consultant suggested I had insufficient glandular tissue.

All the interceptions afterward were really desperate attempts to get back in the game.

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Cutting - edge is certainly the way to describe it, especially when you read about Kirby's desperate attempts to raise enough money for his trip to Rome in 1977.

Even in such an apocalyptic novel as Love in the Ruins (1971), what fails to happen — a Louisiana version of Armageddon — is far more important than Dr. Thomas More's desperate attempts to stave off Mephistophelian evil.

After four months of desperate attempts to save my faith, I came to the sad conclusion that my faith was based on an ancient superstition; a superstition not based on lies, but based on the sincere but false beliefs of uneducated, superstitious, first century peasants.

The failure of «the new morality» sends some of our contemporaries scurrying back into various and mostly desperate attempts to revive «the old morality.»

The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.

They are desperate attempts to recapture one's lost youth or find moments of ecstasy to offset a dull, dreary marriage «before it's too late.»

(13) Neurotic patterns of relating are desperate attempts to prevent oneself from being overwhelmed by this most painful of feelings.

There are times to be serious and also times to laugh, and to remember that God has seen it all before and that our desperate attempts to do the right thing are often worthy of a laugh or two.

He cut through man's trachea and esophagus which detached victim's mouth from the rest of the body, yet he's still making desperate attempts to scream and all the noise is coming out of his neck.

Stewart is brutally honest about the desperate attempts to find their way.

Taking into consideration WeWork's Finance Chief's recent statements about not making a profit, seeing WeWork's desperate attempts at attracting new clients to fill up its spaces, and Neumann's claimed sale of shares, the question is: Is WeWork headed in the same direction as Ouvah?

Taking into consideration WeWork's Finance Chief's recent statements about not making a profit, seeing WeWork's desperate attempts at attracting new clients to fill up its spaces, and Neumann's claimed sale of shares, the question is:

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is making desperate attempts to surpass the social media titan Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) in social media arena, in terms of ad - revenue...

«The Premier is so preoccupied with her desperate attempts to fulfil even one of her major promises to build an LNG industry in B.C that she's ignoring the rest of the economy,» said Simpson.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is making desperate attempts to surpass the social media titan Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) in social media arena, in terms of ad - revenue and user base.

As the network groped for an answer to this question, its increasingly desperate attempts to attract viewers, to turn news into BREAKING NEWS, transformed it into something of a late - night punch line.

Over the past several years, their government raised the value - added tax and imposed numerous new fees in desperate attempts to address serious fiscal shortfalls that have brought the country to the brink of ruin.

Democrats argue it's a desperate attempt to make Montana a competitive state in the 2018 midterm elections.