Sentences with phrase «whose desperate attempt»
Cast as a man whose desperate attempt to escape the monotony of suburban life includes a bundle of large helium balloons and a lightweight deck chair, Ifans charmed Australian audiences in the family - friendly effort.
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«This is a last desperate cover - up attempt from a dishonest candidate whose extremism has cost her votes.
Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.
Turist (Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, 2014) A near - disaster and its aftermath begets a crisis of faith for two vacationing couples, whose increasingly desperate attempts to address what happened are (despite a florid final act) nothing short of mesmerising.
Even Hamburg's non-scatological humor is uninspired, faux - Farrelly attempts at would - be outrageousness: broad sight (pun intended) gags with Polly's blind ferret; Reuben's ex-child star friend's (Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose pratfall of an entrance ominously foretells of the depths to which he's required to sink) desperate «comeback» bid in a community theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Criminal (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Suspense thriller about a recently - deceased CIA agent (Gal Gadot) whose memory and skills are implanted into the brain of a dangerous convict (Kevin Costner) in a desperate attempt to foil a terrorist plot.
This is the desperate and dire world in which we bear witness to the survival attempts of three women whose home and family have been decimated by the American Civil...
What's even worse is when they've depleted their retirement accounts in a desperate attempt to appease the collection agencies whose calls come very day.
If the trade associations decide to band together to challenge the new FTC rules in court, it appears clear it will be seen by regulators and others as nothing more than a desperate attempt of an industry whose members have been labeled as engaging in deceptive and abusive practices to continue those bad acts.
You make unjustified and untrue ad homimem attacks on excellent scientists whose work provides doubt to AGW although their work has often been challenged but never faulted: e.g. you say «I have never argued against people like Lindzen and Christy and Spencer continuing to do their work and attempting to get it published in reputable peer - reviewed journals, even if their work does seem to become increasingly sloppy and desperate.»
Just as we have seen a resurgence in popularity of Zombie movies, whose origins are in the now classic 1968 thriller «Night of the Living Dead» (photo above), so do we see a return of the fossil fuel industry's desperate attempts to animate certain still - living (we believe) bodies in Congress to repeal Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA 2007) at this critical time in history.