Sentences with phrase «embarrassing attempt»

Currently, these are embarrassing attempts at getting a feel for the home before it is ready.

The situation isn't as ridiculous as CNET's frankly embarrassing attempt at creating drama out of nothing, but it's enough to make me question the airplane scenario if mild turbulence kicks in.

On top of the insensitive questions and embarrassing attempts at small talk («I would have voted for Obama for a third term,» Dean proudly declares, minutes after introducing himself), there's just something vaguely... off about the whole place.

In an embarrassing attempt at Spanish, I ask Paolo what her name is.

State Sen. George Latimer, a Democrat and the Reform Party executive committee's choice for county executive, accused Astorino of «using the Republican state party in an embarrassing attempt to steal this ballot line and do a hostile takeover of the Reform Party.»

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

Between the embarrassing attempts at dark humor and the ludicrous development of a full - on zombie apocalypse in the final act, «Life After Beth» is so bad that it's hard to believe it was made by the same guy who co-wrote David O. Russell's underrated existential comedy, «I Heart Huckabees.»

From the embarrassing attempts at dark humor, to the idiotic and unexplained development of a full - on zombie apocalypse in the final act, «Life After Beth» is so bad that it's hard to believe it was written by the same guy who co-wrote David O. Russell's underrated existential comedy, «I Heart Huckabees.»

It was an embarrassing attempt at documenting my «wild and crazy» adventures of my twenties (spoiler: not that wild and crazy).

Well, I know about writing as much as Shakespeare knew about PC RPG's so I'll keep this short without any embarrassing attempts to appear smurt but let me hit you with some knowledge.

But even those who master the game's physical challenges will struggle to maintain their composure against Grand Master Alwyn's embarrassing attempts at hurling terribly outdated insults towards the player.

Featuring incredibly boring minigames and a unintuitive control scheme, Scribblenauts Showdown is an embarrassing attempt to bring back a perfectly functional and enjoyable dormant series with unnecessary additions to its gameplay formula.

He escape the excesses of Sting's embarrassing attempts to save the planet by swearing instead of posing with native Americans in the rain forest.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.