Sentences with phrase «making obvious attempts»

FFBE seems to be making obvious attempts to try to sour player experiences, and there could be a few reasons why.

But as the prime minister made an obvious attempt to talk in Trump's language and to talk up the special relationship, the White House inadvertently undermined her case - by misspelling her name three times.

Not exact matches

Actually fallacy, not, but you make the obvious fallacy of attempting to impute implication of strict Bayesian constraints on what should have been obviously an intentional exaggeration to make a point.

His typical pattern of writing is to take a hackneyed, obvious notion like the Romantic view of the corrupt city and the innocent country, and twist it into complex, awkward shapes in an attempt to make it express the far denser mood - thought he felt about the city.

Obvious attempt at making the Jesus story more believable for a modern audience.

The obvious difficulty of carrying out the provisions of the Law in all their minutiae, in a situation far more complicated than that for which they were originally framed, led those who desired seriously to make the attempts to form themselves into «fellowships» for mutual support and instruction.

They could care less about the majority as made blatantly obvious by their attempt to take over health care..

Yet judging from my own abilities at least, the attempt to make that alleged acknowledgement explicit leads either to an obvious case of merely relative nonbeing, such as the black background of my imagination, or to an unfulfilled and apparently unfulfillable intention, such as that involved in the attempt to conceive of a round square.

The first attempt order, issued on January 27, made the nation's divide on immigration issues even clearer and more obvious.

The US, in a very obvious attempt to challenge Russian dominance in the area, helped make possible the Trans - Afghanistan Pipeline.

The B. Coming attempts to document the emotional upheaval Sigel went through during his trial and conviction, but from the start the sober moral tone and forced gospel choruses make it obvious the MC's mind is on other matters.

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.

Most directors who attempt real time movies without obvious cuts would make their works unbearably stilted and pretentious.

Twilight Time's Blu - ray includes a «making of» featurette, interesting for its attempts at authenticity by providing similarities between actor Sharif and Guevara from newsreel footage, but somewhat hides the obvious mismatch between Palance and the real Castro.

Unlike A Clockwork Orange (the most obvious comparison) or Badlands, the film makes no attempt to link Bronson's violence to any larger trope outside himself.

The whole film is wobbly enough that many of scenes could be moved or cut altogether with no effect, with one obvious example being a stop - over in a village, where Snatched makes some half - assed attempts to paint Emily's largely unsympathetic character in a better light and tries (and fails) to mount a gross - out slapstick bit with a cheap - looking CGI tapeworm.

They are anti-heroes, not because they make a pact to mimic the plot of Strangers on a Train (plus one crisscross) to kill the supervisor of the other in an attempt to eliminate obvious motive from themselves, but because they are entirely incompetent from the moment they hypothesize such a plan could work.

There are also attempts for surprise twists throughout the plot, but the casting and plotting made it obvious who would be good and who would be bad all along, and when the twists are revealed, all one can think is «Duh.»

Lucky has the same affection pouring out of it, which makes it easy to forgive its clumsier attempts at symbolism (there's a much - discussed lost tortoise that serves as a cheerfully obvious metaphor for Lucky's own hard - shelled existence) and its mostly caricatured picture of community.

Some attempt was made to interconnect the multiple story lines and I do appreciate the struggle to show intimacy in the mess of Los Angeles... just too many obvious skits and stereotypes to make this anything more than a half - hearted effort by all involved.

Thats because the former belongs to an army of a state, not a group of men who's blatant, overt, and obvious call for genocide (unless you are deaf, dumb, and blind) of the jews of israel and their attempts to murder any jew they can get their hands on, is what makes terrorists terrorists.

The most obvious flaw was some rough cut plastic I noticed around the base of the center console where there seems to have been no attempt made at all to create a finished look.

Inside, the Atlas's dash and doors are adorned with wood and brushed - metal trim; Volkswagen rarely makes such attempts at warmth, and it's obvious it hasn't had much practice.

Walking up to the 2014 Corolla it's obvious that Toyota made an attempt to inject a bit more style into the Corolla that the 10th generation was lacking.

I'm waiting for the obvious «iPhone-esque» small tablet, with smaller bezels on the side so you can work it better in portrait mode, instead of giving up that capability in return for some misguided attempt to make the tablet usable from all angles.

Turkey has been making the news because of an attempted coup d'etat, capturing the world's attention for all of 20 minutes until it became obvious President Erdogan would escape unharmed.

Worse yet, if you time it so that you make your surge in credit card purchases right before you file for bankruptcy, it'll most definitely be dismissed by the court, since it'll be obvious that you deliberately tried to add on more debt in an attempt to get it erased.

The authors make no attempt to explain their rationale for this obvious cherry picking.

These tests are simple enough to include in the initial workup of a case, along with the more obvious things you mention, such as ruling out intestinal parasites, a general blood panel to make sure that there is not an obvious organ system problem (liver, kidney) and an attempt to make sure bacterial enteritis is not a problem.

It was an obvious attempt to make the game seem grittier than it is, but all it did was just take away the drama and strong feeling that the word evokes.

In an obvious attempt to make as much money as possible on one of their last solid franchises, THQ is upping the

At the weekend, Christopher Booker at the Daily Telegraph made another attempt (see previous) to downplay the obvious decreases in Arctic sea ice by (mis --RRB- quoting a statement from Arctic oceanographer Ken Drinkwater and colleagues: More»

The attempts to create a link between climate change and conflict have been made for obvious reasons: it would help to sell the idea of the world descending to hell, and sell the climate change agenda to security agencies.

The omission of the referring web page makes it is pretty obvious you were attempting to deceive.

Failure to use ARGO data to «correct» lesser instruments including ship engine intake temperature and bucket measurements makes Karl 2015 into an obvious attempt to deceive the public in my view.

No attempt has been made to retrieve supposedly «flawed» floats to verify their calibration, which would be the obvious next step if they really thought that they were wrong.

This makes the post-war drop less obvious to the eye and presumably less disruptive to attempts to make climate models match the historic temperature record, though it may equally be argued that this is an attempt to make the record better match the assumptions implicit in the models.

The editor of Reason magazine (a libertarian glossy monthly with obvious ties to Objectivism) didn't know what to make of it — as it would seem to be the attempt to wed Libertarianism to some form of theocratic government.

It's an obvious, utterly transparent attempt to shut down debate while making sure that any scientists tempted to wander off the reservation will think twice.

As the public continues to wake up to the criminal climate engineering, the geoengineers appear to be going to considerable lengths in the attempt to make the spraying less obvious.