Sentences with phrase «earnest attempts at»

The final section, «Observations on the Process», makes the greatest sense after the reader has not only read section two, but has made earnest attempts at exploring and internalizing its many suggestions.

One day, they're never off their phone, idly watching television, casually batting away your earnest attempts at conversation.

A new year means a new set of occasionally earnest attempts at self - improvement.

And only some such openness of Christians to other religions will give any fruitful meaning to the present earnest attempts at encounter.

In a statement, Cuomo called the fee «an earnest attempt at a real solution» to the problem of bag waste, but said that allowing the stores to keep the money amounted «to a $ 100 million - per - year windfall to merchants.»

«While there are no doubt institutional political issues at play, and while New York City's law is an earnest attempt at a real solution, it is also undeniable that the City's bill is deeply flawed,» Cuomo said.

Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter is an earnest attempt at that increasingly rare item, an adult entertainment.

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

Final Fantasy VII burst onto the PS1 with graphics that amazed and a story that overwhelmed gamers everywhere, but in its earnest attempt at creating a connection to the player, something happened that allowed the genre to slowly spiral out of control into a never - ending battle against goofy dialogue, uncanny graphics, and an over-abundance of drama played up for the sake of drama.

As stated, Ground Zeroes is the clearest, most earnest attempt at an MGS yet; Snake has to infiltrate a government facility at night to try and save two prisoners.

All too often, sequalization is motivated by money rather than any earnest attempt at artistic expression.

In the recent Supreme Court case of Garib v. Archibald, 2016 BCSC 1082 the court makes it clear that claimants will not longer be punished for rejecting ICBC offers if they are making an earnest attempt at settling for the an amount which reasonably reflects the value of the case.

You should make an earnest attempt at getting a plan that has health questions, so you can pay less and be covered immediately.

One could say that after the ill - fated $ 549 iPhone 5c from 2012, the $ 399 iPhone SE has probably been the company's most earnest attempt at cracking the mid-range smartphone market.

Not exact matches

RIM's latest attempts to recapture the leading edge started in earnest at their Wireless Enterprise Symposium in April.

Ryan continued: «I look at this pie - making as an earnest attempt from you to reach out to all of us, not just to me.»

Those who remained loyal to the Church — and they were legion — were, in general, more faithful in their attendance upon its worship and more earnest in attempts to observe the requirements of their faith than had been the rank and file of church members at any time since the first three centuries.

His rabbit - in - the - headlights run, his (crap) attempts at stealth (pictured below left) and his clumsy interactions with his daughters are charming precisely because he's so darned hopeless, yet earnest with it — and don't audiences love a trier?

Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.

Its full intent hasn't been easy for me to divine since its release, but I'm scratching at some idea of exploring the relationship between sounds and the sources that create them, an earnest attempt to enable players to feel what they hear and vice-versa.