"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He delves into the dirty officer's past and his connection with Linda Palmer, unaware that she has by this time shot and killed Tyler after she made a half-baked attempt to escape.
- The history of obstetrics and gynaecology is littered with half-baked attempts by leading (male) members of the medical profession to blame women for involuntary childlessness.
- Press Mocks the Idea The idea of tourism is mocked in the Soviet press as another half-baked attempt at entrepreneurial invention in a land lost in the economic wasteland of Communism.
- I start with the assumption that this is a half-baked ideological attempt to funnel taxpayers' money to mates in the private sector, which does, however, require a bit of window-dressing to divert people's attention away from this.
- Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film a mixed review, writing, "I'd always read that it was a half-baked attempt to rekindle some of the ingredients that made Casablanca such a success, and that's true.
- Daniel's character transformation, however limited (he ranges from complete to partial arrogant jerk), is far more credible than any of the film's half-baked attempts at morphing into a conspiracy thriller involving his great-grandfather.
- They are the inheritors of Cyril Connolly: well-off loafers with nothing of any depth to say, but awfully well-respected, especially in their half-baked attempts to be vaguely 'radical' or 'progressive'.
- However, harmonisation of tax structures is not the way to achieve this: better design, cleaner fuels and research into alternative fuels are the way forward, not a half-baked attempt to extend the competence of the EU into tax.
- This dictum, which appeared in the preface to still another half-baked attempt at a proper dictionary just a year before Johnson brought out his own, might as well have guided the Great Cham through his entire construction.
- A few half-baked attempts by a family of idiots, with no real resources, no planning, no real structure to speak of; honestly, it's a miracle they lasted as long as they did.
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