Even more than most albums, this one is a happily hopeless attempt to capture something that just won't stay still.

Her daughter folded up and dove for the bottom in a hopeless attempt to avoid being crushed.

I did not care to spend more money in a hopeless attempt at recovering them.

It would be a hopeless attempt on his part to land the ship without being detected.

I only say one thing to you, give up this hopeless attempt.

Some students even bailed with plastic dishes in a hopeless attempt to lower the water level.

Jake asked, needing a short break from the relentlessly hopeless attempts.

She'd get embroiled in a hopeless attempt to save her boss.

But companies have added their own spin to names in a hopeless attempt to help customers differentiate among the products.

"They are trying to force it on our people in a hopeless attempt to abort the uprising."