The Polish plan is an ingenious attempt to leap to something similar.
In my view, his ingenious attempt does not succeed; but his failure has much to teach us.
During the 6th century ingenious attempts were made to link Papa with Mari, the legendary apostle of Babylonia.
It seems clear that the motive for selling Amtrak is a new ingenious attempt to kill it.
It was Culbertson's gigantic tournament for newspaper writers, who were plied with free liquor in an ingenious attempt to increase publicity for the game.
The same is to be said of an ingenious attempt to rehabilitate Robespierre (1849).
The last was Heeren, whose learning was really useful, and who has made ingenious attempts at the solution of ancient historical problems.
"An ingenious attempt, but one doomed to failure."
This elicited several ingenious, rigorous and generally successful attempts to explode his theory.