Sentences with phrase «misguided attempt at»

Yet his «just a joke» for those who weren't in on it, his bringing his colleagues into this by suggesting they were Hillary supporters, his ultimate acknowledgment that it was all «totally inappropriate» and that «what I did was wrong, a misguided attempt at humour...» felt like minimizations.

Publishing her column was not some misguided attempt at providing «balance» to the previous piece by Tolan and Harte.

A misguided attempt at restoration in the 1990s resulted in serious water damage.

Maybe it was some misguided attempt at spite.

The staging of the murders is ably pulled off, as is the finale, which side - steps a misguided attempt at humanizing its leads in favor of a far more satisfying conclusion.

At least they got the title right for this aggressively unpleasant redemption story that follows Owen (Adrian Grenier), whose rampant cynicism and abusive attitude toward his girlfriend (Angela Timbur) is traced to a tragedy within his own family and particularly to his sadistic grandmother (Fionnula Flanagan), to whom they pay a visit in a misguided attempt at healing.

There's more to the official synopsis: «As the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them starts to question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their lives is simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream.»

However, as the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them start to question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their lives is simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream.

Bay's misguided attempt at making The Island bigger and faster effectively destroys its intelligent setup and its questions about human life.

I derive far too much enjoyment from its misguided attempt at drama to judge it so harshly.

How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage was released earlier this year.

s. Sascha is currently adapting How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage into a film for Universal.

Sascha is the author of How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage, a witty and honest look at what exactly?

One of his papers was dismissed by a reviewer as a «misguided attempt at scientific humor.»

Upon assuming office, Tsipras and his Syriza - Independent Greeks coalition government looked to act on campaign promises and initiated an uncoordinated, uninformed, and misguided attempt at not only renegotiating the Second Fiscal Adjustment Programme, but also «ending austerity throughout Europe.»

Respect for one another is the key, not a misguided attempt at proving a point.

The response to those such as Rushkoff and others has been a well - intentioned though historically inaccurate and socially misguided attempt at reasserting the old twentieth - century idea of peoplehood as a starting point for Jewish identity.

A man is most truly «helped» when women are walking in the fullness of her anointing and gifts and intelligence and strength, not when she reduces herself out of a misguided attempt at righteousness.

There is a vast difference between mutual submission to one another out of an overflow of love and having submission demanded of you, one - sided, out of a misguided attempt at biblical marriage.

In reality, God placed those gifts and callings inside of you for a purpose and it's profane to stifle them in some misguided attempt at honouring God.

During that visit, he said he saw no signs of Soviet religious persecution, a misguided attempt at diplomacy that brought scathing criticism from author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among others.

People are emerging from prison more broken than they were before, with a surveillance and support structure which is underfunded and shattered by misguided attempts at privatisation.

It's unclear whether I, Tonya is tone deaf or intentionally backwards in this regard; either grotesque and misguided attempts at comedy, or flatline commentary on physical and emotional abuse.

The story of Syracuse is familiar: misguided attempts at urban renewal in the 1960s, destruction of old neighborhoods by interstate highways penetrating the city center, expansion of suburbs facilitated by federally funded highways and tax benefits for new housing; movement of many industrial facilities to the South; and redlining of old city neighborhoods so they could not get necessary mortgages and insurance for home purchase, rehabilitation, and maintenance.

The belief that black children are overrepresented in special education is driving some misguided attempts at policy changes.

Rocky & Bullwinkle is yet another of Microsoft's arguably misguided attempts at capturing that oh - so - attractive casual gamer demographic.

Castlevania went to the gutter, with multiple bad entries and misguided attempts at reboots, the same happened with Silent Hill, where we also had the added ignominy of being teased with a wonderful Hideo Kojima led reboot, before it was scuppered; speaking of Kojima, Konami drove him away after a widely publicized acrimonious split, putting Metal Gear Solid 5 to the market before it had a chance to be properly completed (and give long running fans actual closure).

A lot of reality TV, however accidentally, manages to mine the depths of this misery with its wholesale fascination in stock characters trading in stalled careers (Brett Michaels, etc.), desperate grabs at being noticed (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), and useless and misguided attempts at falling in love (Brett Michaels again, for some reason, and also The Bachelor and its numerous spinoffs).

Not exact matches

To state the cross wasn't mention in the original is misguided at best, at worst it is a direct attempt at deceit.

The Satanic Temple continues to mine the worst tricks from church subculture in what is either a misguided effort to win new followers or an attempt at parody.

«Aside all these issues that they have thrown at Charlotte Osei, today the NPP is in government and this procedure sincerely is a reckless shadow boxing and a misguided attempt to destabilize the foundations of our democracy,» he added.

Therefore, all insinuations relating to undue influence through offer of gratifications or any other means, made by the discredited online publication are mere figment of the imagination and misguided attempt by the sponsor of the online medium aimed at tarnishing the image of the learned DPP, Mr. JIMOH ADEBIMPE MUMINI Esq..

His first few attempts at «serious» filmmaking wound up as misguided, overly saccharine efforts like The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun and Always.

All this doesn't take away from the strong performances from its cast, in particular newcomer Bria Vinaite who unleashes the fury of a single mother misguided by own attempts at survival.

By then, though, it's too late, and The Promise ends up a well - intentioned attempt at revealing reality that is undone by misguided priorities.

I hope you are also willing to make it clear to the legislature that the current administration is being misguided in their attempt to increase funding for the privatization of schools at the expense of adequately funding public education.

You want to be remembered for the right reasons, not because you made an off - color joke, you cut in line, or you took jabs at the company even in a misguided attempt to be lighthearted.

o If your cat is launching himself at people in a misguided attempt to play, then you will need to eliminate places that he can launch from, use squirt guns and spray bottles, and keep thick towels laying around to defend yourself, and then when he is calm, engage him in normal play to wear him out, and praise him and give him treats when he does participate in normal play.

Similarly, attempts to restrict Redstone to a single art - historical trajectory — beyond acknowledging that her painting was (like much other work made at the time) a reaction to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism — are misguided.

With the advent of the strongly environmentalist Obama Administration in 2009 he found himself at odds with EPA s misguided attempts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which led to considerable media attention and his retirement in early 2010.

A legal expert argues that attempts to regulate Brazil's cryptocurrency industry at this stage are misguided.

Through her organizational effectiveness research at the University of Pennsylvania, Pam Teagarden, founder of Authentum, estimates that companies loose more than $ 300 billion a year in productivity due to misguided attempts to improve employee engagement.