Sentences with phrase «unconvincing attempt»

Pollock dried up, made an unconvincing attempt at reformulating his work, and killed himself in a drunken car crash in 1956.

Mourmans visited the artist in his home on Shelter Island, New York, where he saw in the studio a rather unconvincing attempt at enlarging the small works in aluminum foil.

What is less sound is building a film around the comic concept of constant threats to mortality and little else, other than an unconvincing attempt to shoe - horn a love story into the same confines.

Not exact matches

Scott's attempt to link Camus with Tillich's «absolute faith,» so as to demonstrate that «perhaps» Camus did not live completely outside of what Christians mean by grace, is unconvincing.

The attempt to force classical Darwinian thinking into the role of an explanatory principle of almost universal scope has proved singularly unconvincing.

However, Sanchez has played there severally — including last week — and has been unconvincing in all attempts.

After experimenting with Rooney in a midfield role last season, most notably as part of his unconvincing and unpopular attempts to bring a back three - based system to Old Trafford, the Dutchman has returned the conundrum that neither Sir Alex Ferguson nor David Moyes were able to solve.

Well, NOPOLITICS, beside the fact that your reference at the end is too cryptic to understand what you're talking about, (though it seems you're somehow attempting to disparage Hein's 55 percent to 42 percent victory as being an unconvincing win) the first part about the machines taking more time for «closing voting» doesn't seem at all correct as it's computerized.

While it drives the plot, the restaurant is a garnish for the more prominent, and equally unconvincing, parts of the story: Dion's involvement with a gourmandising Polish mobster (Michael Gladis) and Tommy's attempt to break out of his funk, be a competent single father and relate to his own dad (John Doman).

One major problem is a ridiculously unconvincing villain: The script attempts to shoehorn in a bit of Skyfall - style backstory between Bond and his enemy, which sadly leaves the character looking more laughable than terrifying, despite Waltz's best efforts.

Dimenticare Palermo (To Forget Palermo), made in 1990 and co-scripted by Gore Vidal, re-presents some of the elements of Rosi's earlier films as it attempts to suggest hidden complicities between legal and illegal networks of power but is ultimately unconvincing and disappointing in its superficiality.

One major problem is a ridiculously unconvincing villain: the script attempts to shoehorn a spot of «Skyfall» - style backstory between Bond and his enemy, which sadly leaves the character looking more laughable than terrifying, despite Waltz's best efforts.

A 3 - minute block of «Deleted Scenes» with built - in Snyder intros includes Ephialtes's hilariously - failed suicide attempt and its immediate aftermath as well as more uniquely - unconvincing footage of the quote - unquote midget archers.

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

But we're mostly stranded with Eastwood and Roeck's inelegant attempts to infuse a standard revenge western with the gravitas of a war veteran's coming - home odyssey, which includes the usual, unconvincing Native American and damsel - in - distress clichés.

Stefan [non-responsive reply — absolutely no attempt to address the point; falls back on pompous appeals to his own authority and unconvincing unrelated «explanations»]

VPmK was a stunningly unconvincing exercise in circular logic — a remarkably unscientific attempt to (presumably) provide support for the IPCC model [s] of climate — and should be retracted.

The Santer et al. paper attempts to address # 1 and # 2 (unconvincing with respect to # 2).