Sentences with phrase «little attempt»

He appears to have made little attempt to understand, let alone interpret, the smallest objects he could observe.

That's because even the best of partners miss little attempts at connection all the time.

The participants were also observed showing video clips with no real purpose and with little attempt to engage students beyond simply watching without thinking about what they were seeing.

The links you've provided, with which I'm familiar, don't support your awkward little attempts at spin at all.

It makes far too little attempt to represent the range of contemporary art, artists, and media.

He made little attempt to conceal his boredom with routine and became unwilling to devote time to his clients.

Here, culture is interrupted by nature, with little attempt to reconcile the two forces.

I think very many people find that frustrating, that at Prime Minister's Questions there's often very little attempt made to answer the questions at all, things are very partisan, hugely political, but as I said the tone is set by the Prime Minister, the event reflects his or her personality, and our job as opposition politicians, we can't set that tone.

The invasion of Alexander was the occasion for the destruction of a considerable part of the book, and in the years following little attempt was made to restore what had been destroyed, or to preserve what remained.

But shock and chaos spread through Moncrieff's cafeteria when the paper's Alison Little attempted to collect her team's prize for second place.

But judging the film purely on how well it accomplishes the admittedly little it attempts to do, there are enough amusing moments littered throughout to make for a pleasant viewing experience.

Most of Asus's tablets don't ooze ego — there's generally little attempt to make their interfaces vary much from vanilla Android, which is how manufacturer's usually put their «stamp» on a tablet.

What L. A. Little attempted in his book is commendable.

Of course, Insomniac didn't develop this, but it feels like little attempt was made to play to the series» strengths.

None of this was done and as far as can be ascertained from the report little attempt was made by the respondents themselves to establish the cause of the crash.

It can be contrasted with an OARPG, which makes little attempt at being «massive» in a way that MMORPG players would accept.

Whereas at Saint Laurent the problem wasn't so much a lack of deference to the work of Mr. Yves Saint Laurent — Silmane made very little attempt to bring any of his codes into the show.

Jose Mourinho made little attempt to hide his delight at hijacking Tottenham Hotspur's move for Willian as the north London club raged behind the scen -LRB-...)

As it stands, these characters raise several additional subplots that are brought up as though they were main characters but are often left with little attempt at resolve.

That advantage is erased now that the dollar is near parity, and since there has been little attempt to differentiate Canadian lobster beyond price, Americans have little incentive to buy it.

All this processes was my little attempt to create a business idea; and I succeeded in creating multiple business ideas.

Time has come to stop catering to a tiny minority of our population that for the most part live in insular ghetto like enclaves of fellow muslims and makes little attempt to be absorbed into the American way of life.

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

He very successfully adapted revival techniques to the urban community, but made little attempt to speak directly to the problems created by burgeoning urbanism and industrialism or to examine their causes critically.

But I do not believe Wenger really agreed with 3 at the back and seems to have made little attempt to make a success of it.

As you can see in the stills below, the Frenchman made little attempt to even pretend he was tracking back as Sevilla broke forward to score their opening goal.

Everyone directly involved with the UNC scandal has made little attempt to hide the fact that they'd welcome any avenue that would make this whole thing go away as quickly and quietly as possible.

Jose Mourinho made little attempt to hide his delight at hijacking Tottenham Hotspur's move for Willian as the north London club raged behind the scenes about Chelsea's $ 37 million capture of the Anzhi Makhachkala forward representing a vendetta against them.

Above is my little attempt at capturing our right now in a short ten words & photographs.

The Primary Care Trust assumed others were taking responsibility and so made little attempt to collect proper information on the quality of care.

The film is high on emotion; making little attempt to engage with the case for removing the Iraqi dictator.

So what does this little attempt to sidestep the democratic process tell us?

Expenses are treated as salary, and little attempt is made to explain that the bulk of expenses actually go on secretarial and research staff.

Visitors to the Reichstag's glass dome are completely segregated from the rest of the building, and there is little attempt to explain anything about how the German parliament works.

(The same poll, incidentally, suggests that the Conservatives are making little attempt to contact voters in person.

I also from time to time will share my little attempts to cooking!

It is possible for you to go more time with your associate during lovemaking; it just requires a little attempt from your element.

A literary adaptation that continually begs detrimental comparison with the novel, this relies too much on appearance, making little attempt to explore behind the beguiling»20s façade.

The beloved 1970s British sit - com gets the big screen treatment, although there's been very little attempt to do anything clever with it aside from A-list casting.

Audiences today are much more computer savvy, yet there is little attempt to relate the characters within this supposed computer with any of today's often discussed technical terms.