Sentences with phrase «vague attempt»

In true Moliets surf camp style, a couple of hours soon flew by and, as the sun set, a few vague attempts at bringing the evening to a close were made with Cameron's cover of «Banana Pancakes» supposedly being the night's last song.
Of course, it's hard to resist giving in to a more cynical suspicion that reports like these are a vague attempt to drum up a bit of fear within the VC industry, which, in turn, will provide lucrative contracts for the branding agencies that will swoop in to «refresh» a VC's look.
You can use the referee's toilet, she said, and I was escorted straight into the legendary marble halls, shuffling embarrassed past the other queuers, pushing out the front of my coat with my hands in my pockets in a vague attempt to appear pregnant.
There are vague attempts — a family is threatened with being split up as the hijackers separate Israeli citizens from the rest — but they're only asides, and fail to take emotional hold.
First, the film seriously muddles its vague attempts at emotional undercurrents.
Assorted things again, leaping between different games in a vague attempt to deal with the backlog.
Our curriculum model requires specific, precise assessment criteria for each different unit, not some vague attempt to assess everything under the sun.
A vague attempt to mix things up comes in the form of extremely short, which is for the best, platforming sections.
Both games used digitised sprites like Mortal Kombat in a vague attempt to replicate the actors onscreen.
The vague attempts at the #DeleteFacebook movement following the Cambridge Analytica controversy didn't gain momentum and Facebook managed to grow from 2.13 billion monthly active users at the end of December 2017 to 2.2 billion at the end of March.
In contrast, law firms use time and billing software that doesn't really address client guideline compliance, except for a vague attempt to capture «buzzwords.»
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