Sentences with phrase «how desperate attempts»

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But while kids acknowledged how intimately tied to their phones they are, they also told Freitas of their desperate — and often unsuccessful — attempts to get away from them.

«The state GOP's sad attempts to change the subject demonstrates just how desperate they are to distract from the state of their own flailing and chaotic party,» added Geoff Berman, Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Committee.

When I was about 4 - 5 years old, before I even knew how to spell, I «wrote» myself notes in a «journal» I kept — I'd scrawl incoherent scribbles in a desperate attempt to write.

Toni's one - night banishment from the guest bedroom to Arletty's hanging bed is another great gag scene: If we had forgotten just how creepy the mural - adorned walls of the house were, seeing Toni's desperate attempt to fall asleep surrounded by them reminds us.

Yet as Joel lies asleep, hooked up to the mind - wiping apparatus which locates and destroys his recollections of life with Clementine in reverse order, Joel's subconscious trip down memory lane makes him realise just how much he wants to preserve Clementine there — and so he embarks on a desperate attempt to hide Clementine in the parts of his head where Lacuna's machine is least likely to look.

We are sympathetic though — this attempt just goes to show how desperate we are for new solutions.

How many desperate hours did you spend in hopeless attempts to write at least a single page on an extremely difficult topic?

We all know how awful pugs shed, I used the shampoo and conditioner in a desperate attempt to make his shedding happen less and i was amazed by the results, I can literally pet him and not a single hair comes off!

The character of King, for example, may seem like a typical mean leader, possibly even a bully, but soon reveals how he is frustrated at by his own futile attempts at trying to protect his village and the people he cares for, and has become angered and desperate because of it.

In Holdout mode, you can select single player or co-op and face endless waves of zeds in a desperate attempt to see how long you can last.

Do you not realise how badly your desperate attempts to smear Trump by inventing non-existent character flaws reflect on you personally?

The Soon investigations remind me of the Wegman plagiarism investigation — just a desperate attempt to discredit a climate scientist who threatens to attract attention to how weak the consensus science case actually is.

For a while there, it seemed like a new one opened every week, filling our cities with dimly lighted rooms that smelled like ashtrays where unhappy couples could spend a couple of hours laughing at the comedians» jokes and then more time afterward recalling the jokes to each other, in a desperate attempt to avoid talking about how they didn't love each other anymore and delaying the next inevitable fight about nothing as they both pretended it wasn't over between them and they're both one step closer to spending the rest of their lives alone and miserable.

You'd be surprised by how many unfortunate and misguided job seekers resort to throwing in useless «bells and whistles» into their resumes in a desperate attempt to get attention — and how quickly this can backfire.