Sentences with phrase «too little attempt»

It makes far too little attempt to represent the range of contemporary art, artists, and media.

Not exact matches

The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other companies have been criticized for having too little research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.

Sure, there have been times when Ned took his religious zeal a little too far — like attempting to baptize the Simpson kids without telling their parents — and is prone to the occasional existential crisis («I think I'm coveting my own wife!»)

I hope he created the whole universe, and that he wants me to be creative too, and takes delight in my little attempts at creating things.

James Bradley makes a valiant attempt to solve within Whitehead's basic terms the problem Jones has suggested needed a solution, but there is little doubt Jones would regard Bradley's solution as too heavily» reliant upon numerical unity», and therefore abstract.

How much cool stuff would humans have never attempted if we weren't a little too full of ourselves?

Such question sequences appear frequently in Chapters One and Two, no doubt an attempt, a little too lighthearted, to bring complex literary issues down to the reader's level.

’10 Elsewhere he identifies the evolutionary thought which he opposes as «a basic acceptance of technical rationality».11 He speaks of Wolfhart Pannenberg's «extremely valuable attempt to develop a universally historical hermeneutics», complaining only that his «anticipation of a total meaning in history as... too little interrupted or irritated by what is described in the apocalyptic tradition as a universal catastrophe, in other words, the reign of the Antichrist».12 Metz is more open to an Overview than some of his statements imply.

It is possible to be concerned either too little or too much with whether one is getting anywhere in his attempts to pray.

Kant's ethics of immortality attempted too little; Frank Tippler's Physics of Immortality attempts too much.

Next attempt I plan to try with a little raspberry preserves in the middle too.....

The first attempt had a little too much flour and ended up being just a tad bit dry and chewy, as well as lacking in the sweet potato flavor I'd been looking for.

I just finished my first attempt ever at making caramel and I'm not sure if its burnt or not lol It got brown a lot faster than I expected, almost amber before the last few clumps melted, to the point where I really didn't even get a chance to swirl it.It doesn't really taste burnt except for a little bit of an after taste, almost toasted tasting.Is that how it's supposed to be or did I take it a little too far?

I am looking forward lounging a little more this week because I feel like I have been going to to sleep way to late and working myself a tad too hard.Wednesday I attempted to do Zumba like I normally do, but it had been 3 weeks since my last Zumba session.

Last week, I attempted to make a modified version of a recipe I found on www.realfoodonthetable.com, but I missed my bread machine's «beep» to add the raisins and then it baked a little too long in the machine.

The first attempt was pretty good, but it was a little too moist, since I went heavy on the fruit purees.

They were a little too oily, so I did have to wipe down the pan with a paper towel between each naan attempt.

There is little surprise that Hull City are keen on him returning to the KC Stadium next season, and now it is being reported that our fellow Londoners Queens Park Rangers want him for their attempt on promotion next season too.

why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in

But the gulf in talent level was just too high, and City smothered all of Basel's attempts to find their way into the tie, leaving little doubt as to the final result even before the second leg kicks off.

Daniel Ricciardo reckons Max Verstappen was a «little bit too greedy» in his attempted pass on Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain.

The point is that there was a clearly correctable problem in our attack that Wenger didn't really attempt to address until 15 minutes before the end, which is often too little time to make an impact.

There have been a few times when I've been so frustrated with my little girl that I've grabbed her arm entirely too hard in an attempt to stop whatever behavior triggered me.

I had a very hard time getting them on her, too, since she was wiggly and the little diaper just wouldn't stay aligned in the cover while I attempted to put it on her.

But I know this little guy well enough to know that too much instruction will completely turn him off (hmmn... I don't know where he gets that), and that he wouldn't begin to attempt something until he'd studied, watched and thought about it a good deal already.

If you follow the positive parenting guide, it is technically never too early to introduce «discipline» as your simply starting to guide your little one in a positive way as soon as they attempt to do something that you feel isn't safe or right for them.

I knew because of my baby's disposition and our past attempt that CIO would work for him (he is definitely too tenacious for gradual methods like Pantley's), but I did things a little differently this time.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest attempt to quell a boiler system meltdown at New York City Housing Authority buildings is not sitting well with some critics who say the city's $ 200 million investment is too little, too late.

Amnesty International and Southall Black Sisters argue too little support is available to women with insecure immigration status attempting to escape from domestic violence.

(RadioShack announced a last - ditch attempt to avoid bankruptcy on Thursday morning, but industry observers think the iconic electronics seller's plan may be too little, too late.....)

In the overall scheme of things these pre-arranged little protests aimed at getting media coverage are not too effective and the e-mail blasts sent out by every special interest group to protest changes to their little corners of the budget pie and protect the paychecks of those who are writing them don't quite stack up against the masses that are overwhelming supporting the new Governor and the change he is attempting to bring to the state.

Margaret Chin's attempt to take a stand against the waterfront developments is too little, too late.

However, its never - before - attempted engineering would take some time... a little too much time, and anxious astronomers sought a «quick and dirty» big telescope to span the wait.

I have attempted a couple cutout rompers in the change room but the cut out is always too close to the bra line -LSB-?!?!??] luckily, it looks like lulu's is a little smarter than the average bear.

I've also given frighteningly very little thought on what to buy my loved ones too, so in a most feeble attempt to get myself into the Christmas spirit I decided I'd attempt to dedicate the month of December to Christmas itself and produce content that is strictly festive related.

007 Legends attempts to be a big, brassy tribute to 50 years of James Bond, but it ends up a little too ambitious for its own good, with a story that is more spectacle than substance and some new ideas that don't work together as well as they should.

For all its attempted departures from convention in the final half hour, it's still a deeply generic beast which makes too little of its opportunities to depart from the Rocky formula.

A literary adaptation that continually begs detrimental comparison with the novel, this relies too much on appearance, making little attempt to explore behind the beguiling»20s façade.

Cardasis proves that he has some talent for both objectivity and subjectivity, but too often this movie settles for mild good intentions and «you go, girl» fantasy, and there's little room for those things in the very tough world Cardasis is attempting to portray.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

It's not perfect — it features some truly awful character design and at times is a little too obtuse for its own good, and broadly speaking folk in need of an adventure should definitely go for Zelda: Breath of the Wild first before attempting this behemoth, but it's an excellent game nevertheless.

The attempts are too little and too late, save for one A + reveal of where Howard's unseen wife and the mother of his child fits into the lonely picture.

And although the script does eventually attempt to redeem itself with scenes of reconciliation and teamwork, it just feels like too little, too late.

To that end, the Daniels flirt a little too hard with going full indie - movie maudlin on our asses, the whimsy reaching critical levels when Hank and Manny, in their attempt to reconstruct the civilization they've lost, begin creating a dollhouse jungle society, like something out of a Michel Gondry wet dream.

I found this film worth seeing for Langella, but otherwise a little wasteful of the other talent and too obviously an attempt to stretch the short film it once was.

Her parents had been in the midst of a violent argument at the time, and the little girl was too young to understand the consequences of her innocent attempt to intervene with the pistol that had fallen right in front of her.

The concept behind the monster becomes a little too muddled, attempting to turn it into a metaphor without bothering to do the work to get there.

I tried reading the book once, but it was a little too heavy for me at the time (two reasons: it was my first attempt at using a Kindle and I later learnt, while watching this film, that I had been reading the final book, which explains why it made little sense).

Meanwhile, three troublemakers (Justin Chatwin, Camilla Belle, and Thumbsucker's own Lou Taylor Pucci) attempt to extort Dean for the drugs Troy left behind by kidnapping his little brother (Rory Culkin) but instead wrongly snatch «Charley» (Thomas Curtis), whose harridan mother Terri (Rita Wilson) and stepfather - to - be Michael (the suddenly - ubiquitous Ralph Fiennes) are too busy to notice, so preoccupied are they by their impending nuptials and Michael's attendant existential crisis.

Little moments, like a newspaper article about and picture of Mitch in the hospital, are too overblown and stick out of the faux reality that's attempted.