Sentences with phrase «farcical attempt»

Don't forget that despite the bumbling and incompetent Inspector Clouseau making a farcical attempt at an investigation he always ended up with a conviction --(by accident rather than by design, you kneau!)

Russian Orthodox Church leadership continues to promote Putin's farcical attempt to be a savior of Christian values.

Not exact matches

It's the same old story with AW and the board and always the cheaper option, despite the fact that we COULD actually challenge for trophies next season as other issues have now come into play, Wenger will say «well we would buy Suarez but he's not available, Benzema does not want to leave Real Madrid» ect ect ect, but these are always excuses after the event these players would move if the right offer was made we could have got Higain two seasons ago the attempts at getting Suarez were truly farcical AND Im not convinced that it wasn't done that way so as to make it look like we tried when really we had no intention of paying 40 million for him.

«A most farcical cover up has been attempted by this government in the BOST contaminated fuel corruption scandal.

Former Deputy Information Minister under the John Dramani Mahama led administration, Felix Ofosu Kwakye has described the supposed investigation carried out by the Bureau of National Investigation and the National Security as a farcical cover up attempted by the government.

And his supporters are right to say that last year's shambolic coup attempt damaged the party: it was both outrageous and the mark of a farcical absence of political strategy to cripple the opposition at a time of national crisis immediately after the Brexit vote.

Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012) for its uninspired attempts to take on solemn issues and being farcical instead of seductive.

It's a farcical but low - key setup that, for a while, Shelton and her cast play for all it's worth, creating intimacy and discomfort in equal measure as the characters spend time together, the sisters dredging up old embarrassments as Duplass attempts to figure out where he stands with each.

Via the repetition of decontextualized ceremonies and farcical processions over the course of the film (including a trial, a coronation, and an impromptu catwalk), the gathered ensemble attempt to invoke, and perhaps thereby locate and release, those archetypal forces that lie bound within the institution of the culture industry.

It is fascinating Revkin gives Mann so much space in some desperate attempt to salvage his farcical hockey sticks while using his NYT honed «journalism» skills to not even bother looking for a critique.

All levels of government in Australia are crying poor yet they shamelessly continue to pour millions of dollars into the bottomless AGW pit to follow the billions already wasted in a totally futile attempt to achieve their farcical stated objective of «stopping climate change»!