Sentences with phrase «increasingly frantic attempts»

Each new character introduced tightens the noose just a little bit, and there's more than a little «out damn spot» to Carl's increasingly frantic attempts to free himself from his cyclic nightmare.

Sometimes it is possible to spot the warning signs: her face screwed up in frustration while trying to open the toy box, or the increasingly frantic attempts to open the fridge (ah, those pesky child locks!).

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(It doesn't help, either, that there's an air of desperation to virtually all of the movie's attempts at levity, with Nimoy's increasingly frantic efforts to elicit laughs from the viewer growing more and more obnoxious as time progresses.)