Sentences with phrase «noble attempts at»

Even how she saved at least Rigsby from his noble attempt at self - sacrifice has to be weighed against her elation at «winning» even after so many have been lost.

As it is, it's a noble attempt at making the rom - com equivalent of an Event Movie, but the story relies too much on misdirection to stand on its own.

The Sony Xperia Touch is a noble attempt at creating the ultimate home multimedia device.

Adding another child into the chat is a little more awkward, and this might be where Facebook's noble attempt at simplifying and securing Messenger for a younger audience falls flat on its face.

Loved by many for its noble attempt at providing «unlimited» storage, super-clean design and respectable specs, but also detested for several production missteps and software glitches, the audacious 5.2 - incher left very few mobile enthusiasts indifferent.

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Perhaps it was a noble attempt to fulfil the council's request for full and active participation that found us singing hymns at the Mass..

Yes, Thanos cries — a noble attempt by screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to imbue their villain with emotions, and conflicted ones at that.

My first attempt at training the 40 university students that helped coach the program was a noble attempt.

Barnes & Noble's new free app promotion may also be an attempt to attract new customers, or at least keep Nook fans from jumping ship to competitors such as Amazon, Apple, and Google.

Barnes & Noble may be attempting to charge publishers not only for traditional co-op (which usually means display on the New Releases table, Mother's Day table, etc.), but also for giving books any shelf space at all, including spine out.

The introduction of the 5 - inch Mini was no doubt, at least in part, an attempt to offer up a bit of variety in a space whose parameters are largely defined by two Goliaths: Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

This is no thoughtless offering in the upcoming e-reader glut; it's a deliberate attempt by Barnes & Noble to capitalize on all the mistakes of Amazon's Kindle, with a better product at the exact same price.

Barnes & Noble has acquired e-book seller Fictionwise.com for $ 15.7 million, as it makes another attempt at running an e-book store.

We keep seeing attempts to bring back the mass audience to serialized periodical comics, whether it is efforts aimed at what's left of the «actual» newsstand market (7 - 11's have probably replaced the «general store» in most locales), or whether it's pushes to get material into generalist book stores like Barnes & Noble or Hastings, and none of these experiments seem to garner anything but the mildest of responses.