Sentences with phrase «earnest attempts by»

«The White House has taken an earnest attempt by their own climate experts to respond to the Supreme Court's mandate to address global warming pollution, and turned it into a Frankenstein's monster.»

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It is important to realize that a very able and earnest attempt is being made by Catholic scholars in this country, with much support from Catholics in western Europe, to change the principles as well as the practice of the Church in this matter.

is the attempt by too earnest, too literal animation to compensate for such tendencies by indulging in frivolity.

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.

Manglehorn flits between these three scenarios, attempting to make paternal inroads with his successful but estranged financial wizard of a son in between weekly and flirtatious trips to see his favourite bank teller, played with an earnest charm by Hunter and a constant struggle to get his ill feline to eat her food.

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

The pounding electronic soundtrack and druggy neon aesthetic remain the game's biggest strengths; the earnest attempt to move its design on from the original is brought down by its larger scale.

Concerned with systems of language and communication, Rasdjarmrearnsook makes earnest attempts to converse with subjects who don't speak in languages that are comprehended by or even acknowledged by mainstream society.