Sentences with phrase «obvious attempt at»

Usually these types of messages are a reasonably obvious attempt at a fraud, and they don't deserve a reply or acknowledgement.

Bubsy also runs fast (another obvious attempt at ripping off Sonic), but the levels work against the fast speed.

It smacks of a blatantly obvious attempt at getting a fourth entry out of a series that was never meant to have one, a trilogy that wrapped up with an ending that left many disappointed, yes, but was intended to be final.

On topic: Why are people so serious about an obvious attempt at satire.

It's an obvious attempt at fan - service which I'm not even against, but for these missions to work the campaign needs to be at least twice as long, that way Iden, Del and Hask's story gets time to breath while also allowing fans like me to get cool moments with classic characters.

The filmmakers» most obvious attempt at satirical bite is the inclusion of Samuel L. Jackson as right - wing TV host Pat Novak (of, ahem, «The Novak Element»), but his exposition - heavy scenes drag and fall comedically flat.

However, fans of «The Wire» should avoid this obvious attempt at a quick buck at all costs.

The Board subsequently removed the names of the two men but allowed the petitions themselves to remain valid with respect to the other individuals named on the petitions despite what appears to be an obvious attempt at deception.

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

Not exact matches

The risk with that kind of approach is that obvious falsehoods or offensive views get treated as though they were valid through a false attempt at balance.

The analysis is painful to look at because along with the obvious misspellings I didn't even attempt to correct for whatever reason, the analysis doesn't do anything but spout off random stats I pulled from it financials and places like Morningstar.

God has clearly chosen to work in ways not immediately obvious to us, and we can only assume that He has done so in order that He might be glorified while the vestiges of racism and exclusion, the failed attempts at revitalization, and the nihilism induced by violence might be put to shame.

Eric G, it is obvious that you didn't even attempt to explore the facts at NASA regarding the Big Bang information on creation; the questions of what powered the big bang.

I come on, all anyone hears now a days is how another priest has touched someone — and they toss this shat out... sorry, but i have seen some pretty obvious diversions in my time but this is just bad — equal to a 2nd graders attempt at not getting in trouble after getting caught.

Your attempt at telling me I have been treating you «unfairly» is quite obvious and disgusting.

While Curran's attempt at diversity is obvious (one essay is by a lesbian, several are by nonwhite writers, and at least one is written by a thrice - married «encore bride»), and while the authors subscribe to a range of opinions on what constitutes a meaningful wedding, the essays tend to merge into one witty, young - hip - and - urban and mostly forgettable voice.

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.

It is obvious that nothing significant is going to happen between us and the alcoholic if we attempt to change his way of life without at the same time permitting ourselves to become genuinely involved.

So resistant to attempts at de-Christianization did a loyal Catholic constituency prove to be that the necessity of some kind of accommodation to the Church became obvious.

At least he is trying to do something and attempting to plug some obvious gaps.

Name calling while calling for tolerance, keen sense of the obvious comments, poor attempts at humor (usually mocking, calling people bigots because they don't agree with), and then losing your temper when you you get called out.

«They have resorted to cheap blackmail as it is becoming obvious that the efforts of Ali Modu Sheriff at frustrating every attempt to impose a non party member as our presidential nominee is beginning to gain the attention of well - meaning members.

We've had another attempt at a relaunch this morning but (as was obvious from the 8.10 am Today interview with Alan Johnson) we're not getting any decisive government action on social care for the elderly but yet another review.

Gunnar Bjornstrand plays the career obsessed patriarch whose forced and shallow attempts at reaching out to his family are obvious to all.

One of the true, noteworthy duds of the 1990 fall schedule... A lamebrained enterprise, a witless, obvious, often self - contradictory attempt at comedy.

Ninety - nine percent of the attempts at comedy fail for being too broad, clunky, obvious, or just plain stupid.

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.

Add to these a very rough sense of storytelling, and there's really not much going for the movie with the exception of a few strong performances and some obvious but still enjoyable attempts at bringing elements of the stage to film.

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.

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.

The next, it's a too - obvious attempt to pull at heartstrings with the most maudlin kind of melodrama.

Painfully unfunny much of the time, this film will only appeal to those who find the most obvious of gags to be hilarious, the kind of audiences where any attempt at subtlety is lost.

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.

Perhaps it isn't obvious because of the wild looks, but think of the new Civic Type R as Honda's attempt to outdo the best European hot hatches at their own game.

At the most obvious level, they are exciting stories of crime, conflict and revenge, but they are more than that: ambitious attempts to show us the pain and greatness of a troubled nation that is still being born...» - Washington Post

Visual novels are fantastic when done right, but it's glaringly obvious that it was an attempt at an «easy out» for the developer when poorly executed.

There's an attempt at non-cosmetic customization through the wheels and vehicles that are tailored towards specific usage, but it's all very obvious.

They're not as clean as Simpson's past work, and they mark a more obvious attempt to get at the politics that lie beneath them.

That he flirted with the obvious, but was equally embarrassed at his attempts at transgression.

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More seriously, at what point do we get serious about treating such obvious attempts to corrupt the literature as serious breeches of public safety?

It's an embarrassment to look at the fiascos of Climategate 2.0 & 3.0's shoddy shake - down attempts, and on the whole the obvious manufacture of a mountain out of less than a molehill, started because some Australian gadfly pestered an inarticulate British academic and elicited a rude put - down for his troubles.

«Joseph Stromberg reports at the Smithsonian that if there's one group has an obvious and immediate financial stake in climate change, it's the insurance industry and in recent years, insurance industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic weather - related disasters say they're seeing something new.

Debated yes... by people clutching at straws in an attempt to avoid the obvious.

It certainly is, and yet another attempt to misdirect in so many obvious ways, and at so many levels.

The court also rejected various amended claims proposed by Apple, which were an attempt to distinguish the patent from what was shown in the video, because it found them to be, at best, obvious over the Steve Jobs video, which Google's lawyers from the Quinn Emanuel firm submitted to the court in April 2013.

Emails from fraudsters will be very obvious: Probably every lawyer in Canada has received an email that is clearly an attempt at fraud.

While this attempt at fraudulent activity was blatantly obvious, I think it's important for Lawpro to educate lawyers as other attempts may be more sophisticated and not as easy to spot.

For obvious reasons, most firms attempt to measure individual profitability, but many end up including overhead expenses in their calculations, which is really just a numbers game and tends to put lower - level timekeepers at a disadvantage in calculating their profitability contribution.