Sentences with phrase «increasingly frantic efforts»

(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.)

While it's still likely that they'll be renewed, the prospect of expiration is driving City Democrats into increasingly frantic efforts to renew and expand those laws.

Our goal should be to educate this desire in the proper order of love rather than allowing ourselves to be conscripted into the increasingly frantic efforts to sustain the postwar era by administering yet another round of the chemotherapy of disenchantment.