Sentences with phrase «weak attempts at»

If only the weak attempts at Metroidvania style progress wasn't held back by so much involuntary backtracking and no real incentive to ever want to explore fresh areas with any new tools one picks up.

Weak attempts at humor provide a few chuckles but overall this screenplay falls flat and is predictable at almost every turn.

While the story had a serious political bent, this movie threw that aside for insanely bad science and some weak attempts at action.

It lacks the contemporary impact, of course — all the more so now in 2012, when basic - cable features a weekly zombie series complete with weak attempts at the kind of social relevance Romero achieved without the same labour - intensiveness.

There are a few weak attempts at jump scares, but they make little sense in context of the story and feel out of place.

It is filled with weak attempts at sketch comedy, resulting in a few funny moments here and there, but not enough.

Only weak attempts at smashing the good news and information these scientists have PROVEN over and over and over again.

Until the fans forcefully take the club back, the usual continues: Arsene's legacy of loving failure and excuses, arsenal being brilliant for some weeks and losing decisive games at crucial time, a good run at fa cup, injuries more than any other top club, AKBs declaring total support for brilliant Wenger, the American animal torturer giving prof contract extension, Usmanov making weak attempts at takeover, Dangote forever promising to buy us out; and in that time, all the major clubs each clinch a prem title again, even spud having a taste, while for almost two decades we have been dreaming under Arsene's sedatives!

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

I only hope this article was offered in a light - hearted but weak attempt at being mildly humorous.

It was a weirdly healing realization for me, so if you're still angry at your gimpy boobs and their weak attempt at lactation, maybe you can cut yourself some slack too.

I'll give you points for trying, but your weak attempt at massaging semantics to fit your erroneous perception of racing games is... well, just wow.

So does this concept work or is this just a weak attempt at a new game?

I just don't get it, and neither do the creators of this very weak attempt at starting another comic book franchise.

105 minutes of contrivances, coincidences and plot holes, this becomes a weak attempt at a thriller.

closes the book on this incarnation of Chucky, as the family sits down to share their vacation slides of a cross-country tour — a fairly weak attempt at comedy that continues to extract awful punchlines from the idea that, gee, Chucky sure likes to kill people.

It's neither memoir nor expose, but a weak attempt at both and a lot of filler to try to glue it together.

The TD Aeroplan makes a weak attempt at providing these benefits but only on award travel.

I thought that maybe if I played some VR Missions — which you unlock by discovering data cases strewn about the linear path to completion and only serve as a weak attempt at adding exploration — that I could hone my skills, get used to the awful parry system, and have a less frustrating time.

Unfortunately, playing alone in any of the three included games doesn't last long, and the Story Mode is a weak attempt at modernizing the series.

He couldn't — it was a weak attempt at irony.

Besides the generic method consisting to compare the model vs model runs (which would consist to compare error to error if the models were inadequate) there is a weak attempt at comparing runs with reality.

Forgive the weak attempt at humor, but I couldn't resist given that Ethereum has advanced more than 10,000 % since the start of 2017.

A weak attempt at being different is more damaging than a strong attempt at being mainstream,» says Lovgren.

Not exact matches

The company has been struggling with weak demand for its fitness trackers, and its first attempt at a proper smartwatch fell flat.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

This is why attempts at satire fall on their face when they make the weak their target.

After letting it sit in the fridge for a few hours, I thought the favors would become stronger, however, if anything they became weaker As this was my 1st (but definitely not my last) attempt at hummus, I'd have to say it wasn't a complete success, but it wasn't a failure either.

I don't necessarily think Ray is weak (21 reps on the bench press at the Combine), but I didn't see him attempting many power rushes in the games I watched.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world will keep waiting for the wheels to come off and ESPN to see its hopes realized: Rex Ryan turning to Tim Tebow in an attempt to salvage his season and make a run at the playoffs in an extraordinarily weak AFC.

You clutch at any weak instance in your attempt to make a moot point.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The Crystal Palace striker has missed twice in four attempts from 12 yards, the latest a weak effort in the 1 - 1 Boxing Day draw at Watford.

If breastfeeding attempts are infrequent or weak, the possibilities include kangaroo care, maintaining nearness to the infant, hearing and responding emotionally to baby's cries, having the infant attempt to suck or at least nuzzle and regularly attempting to manually express or pump milk (which is beneficial even though only drops may come the first days).

Their crusade against the public broadcaster has no basic standard of decency, and using its attempt at intellectual consistency as a way of painting it as a weak - willed terrorist sympathiser is apparently well within the rules of the game.

«ESDC's attempts to measure the results of this advertising campaign were weak at best, leaving real questions about whether the results justify the cost,» DiNapoli said.

«ESDC's attempts to measure the results of this advertising campaign were weak at best, leaving real questions about whether the results justify the cost.»

Take Julian Parmegiani's attempt to buy a professional video light on eBay, which led him to the LED 5001 at bit.ly / daLLlW and the seller's «How to use» instructions: «Install the battery into the battery jar, when heard a weak «pyridaben carbazole» sound the installation is completed.»

But for today, we'll leave all that aside and take a look at McKitrick's hasty attempt to buttress his weak case against IPCC scientists by quoting from the latest dump of stolen emails.

I started looking at the video demonstrations and am certain my arms may be a bit weak for some of the activities (my attempt at the crab walk was hilariously not happening).

Other weak areas include the cast, mostly in believing Berke, a geeky misfit, could get not one, but three hot babes fall for him, and a curiously bad attempt at a Brit accent by Shane West as the antagonist.

The bulk of the picture's pathetic attempts at humor revolve around contrasting buff Bob's bravery with weak - kneed Calvin's cowardice.

His friends include recently separated Baptiste (Franck Dubosc) and Olivia (Florence Foresti) and an assemblage of other undeveloped characters dealing with other issues that comes across as an attempt at adult issues bingo rather than an incisive vivisection of middle age — divorce, professional / financial strain, intimacy, children — that can be the strongest and weakest parts of the film.

It's weak, but at least it's an attempt at a punch line.

Outside of the fights however, the film doesn't feel particularly well put - together: the direction is weaker than the previous outing — jerking between various scenes, locations, filler Thailand Tourist Board type shots... and there's no attempt at updating anything about the generic 80s action plot.

Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.

We at EdVisions attempt not only to change how and what students learn, how teachers teach, and how teachers organize, but also attempt to illustrate that different outcomes do not mean weaker outcomes — that transformational learning is a positive, productive path, and worthy of regard.

This year a group of Republican legislators in the Connecticut General Assembly introduced H.B. No. 7017, an Act Concerning Student Data Privacy, but following a public hearing, the Education Committee passed an extremely weak version of what might be called an attempt at beginning to address the student privacy problem.

For example, the double - digit inflation of the 1970's was caused by banks keeping interest rates low in an attempt to stimulate a weak economy, at a time when imported inflation from the oil shock was high (leading to stagflation).

Although I have to commend the developers for at least attempting to change and improve their Sherlock Holmes series, their decision to go for more action - orientated style rather than expanding and improving on what makes the series so enjoyable hurts the game, creating a weaker title overall.