Sentences with phrase «lame attempts at»

Fearing such an onslaught of April foolish news, some legal bloggers opted to take the high ground, such as David Giacalone, avoiding «lame attempts at humor.»

This genuinely puzzles me as, despite initial misgivings coloured by the lame attempts at virtual reality during the Nineties, upon actually using a VR headset I was well and truly on board the hype train, describing the experience to all that would listen as akin to those mind - blowing first moments playing Super Mario 64 and realising how irrevocably the transition into three dimensional gaming was going to change the industry going forward.

And don't even get me started on the whole mollusk exoskeleton subplot, which is almost laughable in its lame attempts at symbolism.

Jerry Bruckheimer's dusty attempt to reboot the classic vigilante story suffers from a bloated and schizophrenic script, racism, lame attempts at humor, excessive violence, gratuitous vomiting — and that's just in the first hour.

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?

Other lame attempts at humor involve sexual peccadilloes.

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.

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.»

Jokes aside, and the above was one of our lame attempts at comedy — I guess I should leave that to Mick himself.

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.

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

Yes, Zach, sounds like a last minute lame attempt at convincing some pew warmers that he is.

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).

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

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.

and my lame attempt at a seal was squashed (literally) and the good stuff oooozed out.

The Stoke goal started with a lame attempt at intervention by Xhaka which totally failed, then Ozil trotted half - heartedly after the Stoke player only to give up without even so much as an attempt at a tackle, then Mustafi gave the Stoke player the inside of the box whilst he should have forced him outside only then did Monreal fail as last stop.

There was some protest, a lame attempt at tears, but the struggle wasn't there as it had been before.

Saying all coops are bad is a lame attempt at getting attention.

And you don't have to be a twenty - something fashionista to «rock» this look (warning... lame attempt at mineral humor).

It's Wednesday and that was my lame attempt at a play on words mixed with a Canadian accent.

Or does it sound like a lame attempt at justification?

This was a lame attempt at trying to appear like a «art / indy» flick.

We won't deny that it's still entertaining — at least for a while — but beyond that, we get the same ol' same ol' with a lame attempt at instituting a «new» combat system.

The lamest attempt at making zombies into loveable characters.

No doubt in another lame attempt at shock, The Cottage is also needlessly misogynistic, as the women in it have no function beyond the role of one - dimensional ball - breaking shrew: endless references to pussified Peter's nagging «fat pig» of a wife are bandied about while Tracey screams obscenities at the top of her lungs and emasculates our hapless anti-heroes at every turn.

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.

Upon hearing about the new coalition, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew responded with a lame attempt at class warfare, «If these 1 - percenters want to mount an AstroTurf campaign with their deep pockets, they've done this before.»

Okay, Adam, we get it, this is real TV and not just some lame attempt at sneaking a peek at rehearsed «real» lives.

In 2011 Capital One offered to «match your miles,» a lame attempt at switching big spenders from their co-branded cards to Capital ones» 2 % cash back card.

and are solely my opinion or just a lame attempt at a cheap laugh (please like me).

Speaking of polar temperature changes (this is my lame attempt at looking like I'm staying on thread), does anyone here have some expertise they can share regarding the potential (or lack thereof) for tropospheric impact resulting from the ongoing sudden stratospheric warming event in the Arctic?

tamino had this one covered too, about 3 years ago in response to yet another lame attempt at WUWT to correlate ice out dates with anything but AGW:

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

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.

Likewise the newspaper media, do we consider a particular effort or article in the Globe and Mail (the pillar of journalistic predictability) to be authoritative in terms of what this industry represents, or are most such articles just another lame attempt at selling more newspapers — I believe the catchword is: sensationalism.

Not exact matches

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.

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

It was a very lame and ham handed attempt at mockery and provocation.

Just look at the posts in which the worst offenders attempt to excuse their ignorance with lame excuses: «Hey, you knew what I meant.»

This outfit was supposed to be a lame hat - tip - to - the - capsule - that - really - isn't - a-capsule attempt at remixing, but it worked out beyond my expectations: it looked more cohesive (and, dare I say, cute) than I had hoped, plus it made this dress a little more appealing for some reasons.

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.

The actors seem bored, the romance between Fox and Rourke is a non-starter, and the lame ending borrows a page from An Occurrence at Owl Creek as a last - ditch attempt to interject some meaning into this unholy mess.

Burgundy survives that lame suicide attempt, of course, prompted by his depression at having lost his big New York job, even as his co-anchor wife, Christina Applegate's delectably named Veronica Corningstone, becomes a raging success.

While he does have some acquaintances and a predictably boring job at an insurance company, Dodge shows no inclination to join in the festivities of excess (drugs, sex, religion, riots) enjoyed by others, and instead offers up a lame, sure - to - fail suicide attempt to go with his droopy demeanor and overall lethargy.

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.

Escape Plan, the newest Stallone vehicle (the fact that the man can still sell tickets on name recognition alone is amazing), directed by Mikael Hafstrom, isn't fun at all, and exchanges fun, blood - pumping, excessive action for a lame prison - breakout puzzle that we have to watch two oafs (masquerading as geniuses) attempt to solve.

If you never get tired of the basic ideas at the core of every resource - based strategy game, don't mind unnecessarily cute (and occasionally lame) attempts at humor, and can get past some minor targeting issues then World could work to fulfill that tiny niche of XBLA resource management games.

though I am inclined to think it was a rather an attempt at a rather lame joke, on paraphrased on Fred's part rather than any great fault by Tallbloke... ie by the Chatham House rules should anything have been attributed to anybody

It was a pretty lame analogy used in a navel - gazing attempt at professional empathy.