Sentences with phrase «shameless attempt»

(That was my last shameless attempt at getting free help up here!)

Our take: We could call this silly book one of the most shameless attempts we've seen to cash in on people's financial insecurity, but that would be our Inner Whiner talking.

At only 97 minutes it thankfully ends before any seriously damaging migraines can take hold, but some fun voice work (Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton show up, too) is the only saving grace of his tactless, shameless attempt at heart - tugging family «fun».

This appears to be a shameless attempt by Gov Romney to reach the conservative religious right (CRR) and suck in a few more votes.

Tis the season to give stuff away in a shameless attempt to get more bloggy traffic.

«This is an unprecedented intervention from the UK's highest statistics authority, who for the third time have felt the need to expose Vote Leave over their shameless attempts to mislead the British people,» Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, who first wrote to the UK Statistics Authority said.

And, it might just be a shameless attempt to pivot off of a pop - culture moment.

Even more disgraceful was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's shameless attempts to buy passage of this legislation with the implied promise of providing financial support to the re-election campaigns of Senators who support the bill.

«Now, in a shameless attempt to backpedal, NYS DOT and the Thruway Authority are saying they will remove the sings claiming «new signs are needed anyway for a new tourism campaign.»

The new 10 - episode season of Angie Tribeca, which is slated to debut in 2018, will see the addition of Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire) in a self - proclaimed «shameless attempt to grab some much - deserved awards attention.»

The killer's first (and worst) lead role was opposite a hammy Richard Harris in Orca, a shameless attempt by Dino De Laurentiis to ape the success of Jaws.

And both are prime examples of self - imposed limitations bearing little fruit, films stunted by their shameless attempts to appeal to as wide a demographic as possible.

Secondly, this would be a shameless attempt to jump on an increasingly exhausting bandwagon via a game series whose systems don't seem particularly conducive to such a mode.

The cable network also said at TCA that Bobby Cannavale is joining the cop spoof «in a shameless attempt to grab some much - deserved awards attention.»

Several months before state testing begins, I engage in a shameless attempt to increase proficiency rates by motivating students who are near the bar to jump a little higher.

Also, games like Beyond the Beyond, Legend of Dragoon (I'm still surprised people actually like this horrible and shameless attempt to cash - in on Square success at the time), Draken and Syphon Filter really sucked even back then.

While you can knock Reverge, and say that their decision to endow their cast in such a way was only a shameless attempt to appeal to their audience, that would be doing a major disservice to the work as a whole.

Still, it's hard to recommend this to anyone that wants a meaningful story, as the narrative definitely takes a back seat to the gameplay and a shameless attempt to reach into players» wallets for loose change.

In stark contrast, his response to Sue Macgregor ten years later was an astonishing and shameless attempt to hoodwink the nation and evade blame with a trivialising revisionism that implied gross misconduct by the Charity Commission.

This effort should be seen for what it is: a shameless attempt to silence my scientific research and writings, and to make an example out of me as a warning to any other researcher who may dare question in the slightest their fervently held orthodoxy of anthropogenic global warming.

News reports of Soon's situation are «a shameless attempt to silence my scientific research and writings,» he said in a statement issued through the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank.

Negotiations collapsed dramatically in Denmark during COP15, partly due to the incompetence of the Danish presidency and partly due to a shameless attempt by rich countries to get rid of their responsibilities and shift the burden of solving climate change onto developing countries instead.

In his official statement, Soon wrote that he has «been the target of attacks in the press by various radical environmental and politically motivated groups» and that the «effort should be seen for what it is: a shameless attempt to silence my scientific research and writings, and to make an example out of me as a warning to any other researcher who may dare question in the slightest their fervently held orthodoxy of anthropogenic global warming.»

Sensing that de Blasio's announcements were nothing more than a political stunt without substance and a shameless attempt at extracting wealth from the energy industry, environmentalists and climate skeptics alike slammed de Blasio on Twitter:

In a March 2 statement, Soon called the Greenpeace - initiated attacks on him «a shameless attempt to silence my scientific research and writings, and to make an example out of me as a warning to any other researcher who may dare question in the slightest their fervently held orthodoxy of anthropogenic global warming....

That's one reason why yesterday I launched my shameless attempt to get Mann, whose defamation suit against me is now in its fourth year, to amend his complaint to the DC Superior Court yet again and this time demand the death penalty - for having the impertinence to publish a book full of what other scientists say about him:

Other than that, it's a shameless attempt to follow something Apple did.

You're intentionally replying to the top comment in a shameless attempt to get more visibility for your flame bait.

I really dislike typical smartphone bloatware — one example here is the Xperia Lounge app, which is essentially a portal to watch YouTube videos — but I can at least understand a shameless attempt to pipe in desired content to phone buyers.