Sentences with phrase «vague attempts at»

Not exact matches

It's hard not to see the vague and generalized public apologies that have become a part of our cultural discourse as anything but attempts at superficial reconciliation.

So far our attempts to talk with Noah about the baby in Mama's belly have gone completely over his head — he might retain the vague notion that there's a baby in there for a few minutes, but it's not sinking in at all.

There's a vague and hammy attempt to create an antagonist, in the shape of a cartoonish colonel played by Yul Vazquez, but it's mostly plain sailing despite the tragedy at the film's core.

This alone you can forgive, but compound it with some truly ham - fisted attempts at CGI and a story that was almost literally taped together from vague scraps of narrative left lying around the set and you've got a real dud.

Caruso could've at least attempted a vague sense of finality to show some genuine respect to his audience, but closure won't encourage people to follow Four again in a few years.

Tom Green's follow - up to Gareth Edwards» inventive «Monsters» does at least attempt something interesting: Just as the first film fused monster - movie sci - fi paranoia with a gentle indie love story to become an offbeat take on genre, «Dark Continent» basically wants to be a war movie with vague sci - fi elements.

The term «mastery» is somewhat vague and I have read many contrasting attempts by others at defining it.

In an attempt to spread assessment criteria so thinly, as to cover every assessment eventuality, NC levels (at least in English) have to be generic and vague to the point of being ineffective.

Diving into a corner at speed, understeer reared its ugly head, and attempts to correct it with more throttle caused the suspension to feel unsettled, leaving the steering vague.

Her father, in turn, gently taps her fingers with his hand, his vague and abstracted attempt at a comforting gesture.

The exact rules regarding how and when to redeem your rewards toward a car purchase or lease are vague at best, so read the rewards materials closely before attempting redemption.

At least the film had some vague sub-plots going on, but the game doesn't even make an attempt to provide anything of the sort.

Alright, so there we have it, my own personal attempt at validating my criticism of the game, of expaining, in a vague way, how and why I felt that the pacing was off.

Despite the attempt at being vague, we are thankful to Gearbox for having at least hinted that work on what could be Borderlands 3 is well underway.

Because Mason paints on a prepared white ground, not raw canvas, her transparent washes seem more akin to J.M.W. Turner's late work, especially regarding that vague sense of landscape that nags at a viewer's attempt to read its implied space.

It's an issue of concern as attempts at legislation attest, but they are all vague and apparently unenforceable.

There were some minor fireworks when Tillerman attempted to make one of those vague, grand philanthropic statements so common to wealthy benefactors at public events.