Sentences with phrase «stab at»

Undaunted by the lack of response to Opportunity Knocks, Carvey once again took a stab at solo success with the similarly panned Clean Slate in 1994.

There's not much that's original in this stab at comedy, and I say «stab» because it feels as if they're trying to kill it, and trying, and trying.

The first «Shrek» was a quite a surprising and genuinely funny stab at the fairy - tale genre (and Disney in general).

Ron Howard's third (and weakest) stab at a Dan Brown adaptation, Inferno follows Tom Hanks» Robert Langdon as he and an emergency - room doctor (Felicity Jones» Sienna Brooks) team up to prevent a catastrophic global plot designed to wipe out more than half of the world's population.

Michael Apted, who turned the simple BBC documentary Seven Up into the most remarkable documentary series ever created, takes another stab at fiction with the British mathematician equivalent of a spy film, Enigma.

She acted with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, and, with such future film luminaries as Al Pacino she appeared in several off - Broadway productions A tentative stab at film acting in The Wedding Party, filmed at Sarah Lawrence in 1963 but released in 1969, might have been forgotten save for its roster of celebrities - to - be: Jill Clayburgh, Robert DeNiro and director Brian De Palma.

Your stab at captivating might come off as creepy.

Might even take a stab at standup one day, haha.

Kremen took his first stab at entrepreneurship after graduating from Stanford, launching two software companies.

One can bond over common dislikes with newly released Hater or take a stab at love a-la Bachelor style.

For instance, you could take stab at filling out your information and picture, then show your friends for their feedback.

However, even if you manage to avoid these obstacles, there is no guarantee that someone won't ultimately stab you at the finish line.

Your comments please... Please add your informed opinion and have your own stab at the numbers.

that being said, ill take a stab at something a little more unique.

While no one can wave a magic wand and make someone return to their ex, we knew we could take a stab at it and came up with a strategy in our Irresistible Dating Coaching program for Steven to give it one last try.

His first stab at making WorldStar stick saw the site focus on mixtape.

Notwithstanding lip shine, take a stab at wearing extreme eye make up.

I had met this guy who I would have happily made a stab at a future with.

Rust has always been on my list of hues to incorporate a little more into my daily wardrobe and I even took a stab at it here and here.

I hope to get outside for a stab at natural lighting, which I generally prefer.

I'm going to take a stab at this whole writing about motherhood thing but before we begin let me start this post off by saying two things.

So Jacko took a stab at modeling it, too

I hate this particular fashion (bralets over shirts) although you have a jolly good stab at it Sam.

After endorsing a toddler's review of her Fenty Beauty's highlighter, the multi-hyphenate star took a stab at beauty blogging by appearing in front of the camera in an Instagram post to demo Fenty's upcoming product launch: the Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color ($ 24; sephora.com).

I've long admired the Celine white wedges from afar, and with this project, I took a stab at designing a pair that were inspired by them.

Oh this is a great look, i so want a trench but they never fit quite right as I am tall but a small size so when i get a small the belt is up around my rib cage, but I am going to take another stab at finding one.

Normally she's the one dressing celebrities but in this case I'm gonna take a stab at redressing her (because she's a celebrity to me).

I have seen some adorable t.p. roll crafts in the past, so I thought I'd take a stab at creating something using them!

I'm also loving the athena embroidered blouse and I'm super undecided if I like the palazzo pants trend, but I might venture out and take a stab at their peach petal pants.

But now technology is offering a much more direct way to take a stab at your self - esteem — or...

There are some bad green brands out there, meaning you could end up looking like a drag queen who just took the first stab at doing her own makeup, not yet a Geish, without a dragmother, and who does not know the first rule about cooking her makeup.

To see how my week - long stab at the fruitarian diet went, keep reading.

The Workout: Take a stab at your own WOD.

I drew contrasts between my first stab at life and this unique opportunity to change directions.

I'm not here to take a stab at personal trainers, or the fitness industry in general (although I do have my gripes as you may see throughout some articles on this site..).

(Or maybe Tom Goff, Darryl, Gatherer or someone else will take a stab at it for us.).

No doubt many groups within established Big Pharma entities are also taking a stab at this, more quietly, and with less press attention.

After extensively researching and writing about our solar neighborhood, I feel I'm fairly qualified to take a stab at ranking these bad boys once and for all.

As the repeater narrowed down the options, Scholz took a stab at guessing the source: «Extragalactic magnetar» he wrote in his initial email, referring to a young neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field.

Last year, using the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope as a guide, astronomers took a statistical stab at estimating the number of exoplanets that exist in our galaxy.

«We're taking a stab at the scope of what neural algorithms can do.

A team of molecular biologists has taken a stab at defining how we became human.

Our story explored why some highly respected scientists had embraced tweeting, but we also made a stab at compiling a list of the most followed researchers on Twitter, which online we dared to headline «The top 50 science stars of Twitter.»

After the hearing, Collins explained that the plan, which is already required by a 2015 spending law, will be developed through a process quite different from NIH's last stab at strategic planning in the early 1990s.

When he began working on surreal numbers, Conway made a stab at describing their anatomy; later Kruskal came up with a powerful, intricate, and precise way to dissect them, based on certain surreal numbers that can't be broken down any further.

The commission took a stab at these complicated questions, issuing new analysis and recommendations for how to manage these increasingly complex issues in medicine, research and with direct - to - consumer tests that allow a patient to send in a cheek swab and get health information (like the personalized genome services kit offered by 23andMe, that was recently blocked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

Now, Dymecki and colleagues have taken a first stab at systematically characterizing serotonergic neurons at the molecular level and defining a full set of subtypes, again in mice.

He went on to use this «equivalence principle» as the fundament of his general theory of relativity, still our best stab at explaining the mysterious force of gravity.

So take a stab at writing a research plan, even if you don't expect to be on the job market for a while.

In honoring the spokespersons of the two detector collaborations, the prize committee has taken a stab at the thorny question of how to hand out laurels for a discovery that was made by large teams of people.