Sentences with phrase «feeble attempts at»

Stop the feeble attempts at framing please.

I came past the man with the newspaper again, whom the surrounding sights, sounds and smells were nothing more than feeble attempts at distractions.

Some feeble attempts at tension and plotting then ensue, with Al probably spending more than 88 minutes to blow - dry his ever increasing hairstyle.

Being a widower in this community is something of a black mark, and Menashe's feeble attempts at trying to find a new wife (set up through the sect's matchmaker) are really nothing more than performative shrugs, wasting time with these suitors when all he wants to do is hang with his kid.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

A couple of them made feeble attempts at linking saturated fat to heart disease, however, it was later shown that in those studies, the data was flawed as well.

By the way, have you noticed that all you can muster up is feeble attempts at personally attacking me instead of my policies?

Truly, God's ways are higher than our ways, and our feeble attempts at understanding them often fall short.

Although our feeble attempts at theology might be fairly amusing to God, the one sign we can all point to as we seek to know God is Jesus Christ.

By the way, not sure who Alyssa M. is, but the implication in my feeble attempt at sarcasm was that my wife was the unsatisfied party, not the other way around.

The experience of art and culture is a feeble attempt at capturing something that only the experience of life can truly see.

And so now I know how to account for my feeble attempt at Ash Wednesday humor: I was nervous and uncomfortable.

God does not accept man's feeble attempt at repentance because it is just not good enough but repentance is still needed to have salvation and it is obtained as a gift the moment we declare Jesus Lord of our life.

But Djourou made a feeble attempt at a clearance and Walters had plenty of time to pick his spot and end the contest.

She is one in a million and yesterday, like on so many Mother's Day's before, I made a feeble attempt at letting her know how much I love her and how much we appreciate everything she's done.

The fact that he is from outer space is pretty much ignored and virtually irrelevant to the cliche riddled plot and the feeble attempt at providing depth and moralisation goes nowhere.

Disney's feeble attempt at recapturing the «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchise magic feels more like a beaten dead horse than a rip - roaring good time.

Director Chris Weitz should be forced to fall on his sword in a written apology to George A. Romero for his feeble attempt at falsely inflating New Moon by the only means possible, cutting down competing genres.

With their relationship already established, this movie goes straight for the action until about midway through when it makes an abrupt stop to interject a feeble attempt at storyline.

There's a feeble attempt at moving away from this towards the end, but it just falls flat.

Again bearing no resemblance to Spencer's feeble attempt at describing it.

My post is a feeble attempt at understanding why climate change mitigation is not happening around the world.

Other duties short - circuited what I now realize was a feeble attempt at order.

Not exact matches

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At first, Paltrow makes a feeble attempt to legitimize the advice.

A charlatan who charges huge sums to show up for debates, Look at he feeble attempt in the debate he lost with Sean Carroll, the physicist.

NOT at all... your feeble attempt to relate this to strapping bombs and all does NOT negate about my belief in God... those are people who abuse the religion..

Take a look at the video and let us know whether the supporter makes a convincing argument for Mourinho to stick around, or whether the interviewer's feeble attempts to advocate the case of Carlo Ancelotti actually hold some ground.

In a bold attempt to put a positive spin on things, and to try and cover up their feeble display in midweek as they failed to score even one goal against a side Arsenal put five past during a Champions League game at the Emirates earlier in the season, Liverpool have been enjoying an upturn in league form, winning six and losing just one of their last eight, while they were impressive 3 - 1 winners at home to Manchester United last time out.

In this index case, a feeble condemnation premised on a subtle attempt at equalization with events of 2009 will not suffice.

Nor the collective horse laugh the political class had at his expense when the wheels came off his last feeble attempt to put that industry out to pasture in January.

Attempts at comedy, be it Hook and Smee banter or the Lost Boys» childish antics, are just as feeble as Jane's coming - of - age drama.

Driving the Corvette Grand Sport on any road with this much power, grip, and chassis balance means it probably views us with disdain, rolling its eyes at our feeble attempts to explore its limits.

Today, we take a walk around the world and see how different brands invest in retail visibility and laugh at some of the feeble attempts.

The major averages sold off hard at the open and after a feeble rally attempt sold -LSB-...]

It's a real shame, considering at the start of each mission or multiplayer event the camera revolves around the map, revealing the clearly feeble attempt to get a player excited at the prospect of what they are about to do.

[56] In our view, while the trial judge decided that the respondent's attempts at furthering her education and obtaining professional qualifications were «feeble», this observation does not render reviewable the trial judge's finding that the respondent was presently unable to work at employment that was realistically within her current employment ability.

Its feeble attempts to win over everyone either misunderstands its own product at its core, or signals a desire to re-frame that product as a second - string replacement for platforms that already exist.

It's the mother's visitation interference, and her feeble attempts to reassert herself that HARMS DAUGHTERs and puts them at risk of «distrusting men.»