Sentences with phrase «lame attempt»

I do appreciate that it keeps away from the normal romantic - comedy and teen comedy dynamics, minus the very lame attempt at a «be happy with who you are» moral.

Is this your sad, lame attempt of some kind of «proof»?

Instead what you get is a very lame attempt to use the controller.

I couldn't imagine going through the entire sign - up process without laughing about how lame their attempt is at getting me to sign up.

After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the human population for hell with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.

The Jicama Grapefruit Salad is a completely lame attempt to replicate one we had in Mexico, but very good in it's own right.

Well, since you're too stupid to figure out that I was originally referring to Laughing's inexplicable meltdown, I'll just ignore your latest lame attempts at barbed wit as I do most of your posts.

Completing the picture of screenwriting obnoxiousness, The Rookie obnoxiously rhymes earlier scenes to later ones for lame attempts at «callback» humor or — what's that called?

This movie is an obvious lame attempt to make FIFA look

The analogy I used when I was startled by a similarly lame attempt at proof by an otherwise intelligent fellow grad student is that using the bible to prove the resurrection is like using the Old Irish tales I had been studying then to prove the superhuman powers of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn.

miscrraige is not (unless it is brought on by violence from another person (ie one who hits the woman in the womb area causing injury to the baby) to bring in miscarriage shows lame attempts to side track the issue

Despite lame attempts at entertainment, the game feels more like work than anything else... If you want topless women and extreme sports together, you'd be better off buying a copy of Playboy and alternating reading it with runs of «Tony Hawk.»

Endless fast cuts complete with whooshy sound effects, thumping techno bass lines, ugly on - screen graphics, garish colour filters, and * cringe * a hero who talks directly to camera (Michael Caine is STILL the only actor to EVER get away with that...) Every tacky, irritating and superficial MTV affectation is on display here, in an unbelievably lame attempt to make an american rip - off of a Guy Ritchie heist movie.

Other lame attempts at humor involve sexual peccadilloes.

Even the scripts lame attempt at a surprise is so obvious when you see which character doesn't have a child and which character says she is adopted, there is only one «soap opera» conclusion there.

The couple of digs at other movies includes lame attempts at skewering X-Men, Fantastic Four and Batman Begins, but those gags are so forgettable one can almost see the producers check the box of superhero films to include in advertisements.

Now I can understand making a mistake because you read the excerpts and didn't read the entire interview.That doesn't justify your laughably lame attempt to back track — but it is understandable.

That is a magnificently lame attempt to dig yourself out of a hole.

Nevermind, it was a fairly lame attempt at discrediting the above ala Neilio - style, and I am usually better than that.

Then, after all of the completely lame attempts to squeeze any kind of laugh from this effort, we're supposed to care when the movie decides — at the last minute — to send us some kind of message.

Most of your friends are well into their workday, slugging down their fourth «get - me - through - another - meeting» coffee, laughing at the boss» latest lame attempt at a joke.

This movie is an obvious lame attempt to make FIFA look presentable in the eyes of many and the bad quality of the movie shows.

In a rather lame attempt to inject some variety into the game, you can replay some of the levels with different additional restrictions such as requiring that you scare all of the bears into killing themselves instead of killing them yourself, or that you must make it through a level without being seen by the other bears.

It's unfortunate, however, that some pacing problems, lame attempts at humor and tech - speak dialogue bog down the flow of this otherwise - engaging release.

Erman says that RIM is «falling back on a lame attempt to tell consumers that they will be cool if they use a BlackBerry.»

And so without missing a beat, without even cracking a smile at my lame attempts to disarm my own fear, Carolyn looked me right in the eye and said, «Sarah.

Read up on basic evolutionary theory to understand your «blob» questions (though you did a straw man perversion of the concept in a lame attempt to discredit it without actually getting an answer).

This type of questioning is nothing more than a lame attempt at diversion.

I want to know why people come on here to declare their non-beliefs, unless it's just a lame attempt to get attention.

Your lame attempts to make it work, simply show you have no idea of how logic works... It is not a two way street.

No, this is just a lame attempt to point out some kind of fault in HS.

These lame attempts to make the Church «accessible» just don't turn around its image or effectiveness for anything but a short time.

I would say there were led by the Holy Spirit, but really, they were led by a book on the Holy Spirit... (Yes, that's a lame attempt at a joke).

lame attempt to bring people back into the fold.

It has very annoying background music, a lame attempt to make what's going on on screen more dramatic and weighty than it really is.

The above was my lame attempt at saying so with diplomacy.

It has very annoying background music, a lame attempt to make....

This woman is playing God by putting words in mouth of God in her lame attempt to interpret what God meant.

So sick & tired of these lame attempts by cnn to render islam as relevant.

That's my lame attempt to do a Giada impersonation.