Sentences with phrase «valiant attempts at»

We've seen plenty of valiant attempts at ousting established high - end vehicles like the aforementioned Bimmer and Jag, most of which fail.

Griffin also makes a valiant attempt at summarizing Charlie Munger's notoriously artful and qualitative approach with rigor and detail.

Chad, While it is a valiant attempt at trying to point flaws in colin's post, you missed one crucial point..

ode to the Potters for their valiant attempt at shaking off their staid reputation!

Chronicles: China is a valiant attempt at expanding such offerings, but it doesn't hit the bar of quality or originality that its genre peers have already set.

The MKT is a valiant attempt at reinventing an icon, but it's ultimately let down by its baroque styling.

The Pandigital Novel makes a valiant attempt at being a value - priced, full - color, Android - based e-reader that also doubles as a general - use tablet.

Pretty much as you wrote about Capcom's brand new trailer for Lost Planet 2, I was standing at a kiosk playing with three others as we made a valiant attempt at taking down one huge creature.

Modern Combat: Domination is a valiant attempt at trying to go head to head with shooter genre giants such as Call of Duty and Battlefield and is, to some extent, successful, but overall the title fails to bring anything new to the table, or build upon other titles.

Overall, Sega's Rise of Nightmares makes valiant attempt at a creepy matured rated action horror game for the Kinect.

The next thing you know, your valiant attempt at going paperless has lead you right back to where you started.

Still, while they don't compare directly to the AirPods, the Pixel Buds make a valiant attempt at staking their own ground, offering intuitive tap controls and some impressive features to set them apart from the crowd, like real - time translation.

a wonderful post... and I would say a valiant attempt at re-creating the fireplace in the picture... koodo's to you for even attempting that — I have no carpenter skills so you got alot farther than I would have... I wouldn't take this as a failure at all — failure would have been not even attempting it — I think this should be a success, since you clearly knew that your building skills might not have been up to that level and you tried it anyway — good for you!

Not exact matches

So in a valiant attempt to do something sweet for my dear hubby, I decided to transform fruitcake this holiday season into something better, something yummy, or at least something not quite so creepy and mysterious.

He helped to keep Seamus Coleman in check at Goodison Park and made a valiant attempt to help Nacho Monreal deal with the Lionel Messi - Dani Alves double - team.

First it was as a VERY stiff salve only loosened with a bit of avocado oil to rub into my chronically abused cuticles in a valiant attempt to at least heal them enough to handle salt and lemon in the kitchen (yes I have a lifelong nibbling habit.)

As he delves ever deeper into the case, he arrives at the sudden, shocking conclusion that he knew each of the women, and worries that he might have rubbed them out in a drunken state, as he concurrently (and paradoxically) makes valiant attempts to reach the next victim before the killer.

In Housewife (1934), she's second billed but really only a supporting player, the «other woman» who seduces — or at least makes a valiant attempt to — advertising professional George Brent from his devoted wife Ann Dvorak.

There's a blossoming romance with Meryl, which can end in tragedy if you fail the interrogation sequence, and attempts at profound emotional moments are valiant, even though they perhaps don't hold as much effect as they may have done before.

Recently released Lastfight made an attempt at being the new Power Stone earlier this year, but it's not the Power Stone 3 a number of Dreamcast fans have been waiting for, despite a valiant effort.

Team Ninja's stint at the Metroid reins was a valiant attempt, but it wasn't the game that fans wanted.

Prof Andy Challinor, at the University of Leeds and not involved in the new work, said: «This is a valiant attempt to quantify the effects of climate change on the future of food production.

Bob and I, being true gentlemen, retreated to the tents to smoke and drink beer in a valiant attempt to keep flies at bay — while the ladies stayed outside to cook dinner surrounded by clouds of the nipping insects.

For references, see Carbon futures: a valiant attempt to bring scientific order from modeling chaos at environmentalresearchweb's sister journal ERL.»

Fitbit's attempt at entering the full - feature smartwatch industry is valiant — no doubt — but where the Ionic truly shines is with its fitness tracking, an aspect of the company's wearables that's always scored highly.