The animal made a ridiculous attempt to crawl into his lap, and he smiled a little as he gently pushed her down.

It explains a lot of things-especially that ridiculous attempt at creating a truce!

It may have been a ridiculous attempt, but at least Earl couldn't check himself in a mirror to realize how stupid it looked.

And he laughed at their ridiculous attempts to be helpful.

She should be ashamed of both her comment, and her ridiculous attempt at back-peddling.

'Nor I,' she countered, in a ridiculous attempt to even the score.

And in their most ridiculous attempt at charity, they try to tape a packet of money to a donkey.

He snorted with contempt at their ridiculous attempt to design a reasonable-looking planet.

The subject is dealt with best by re-showing the original debate and the churches ridiculous attempts at censoreship.

The proposal in the Berlato report is a ridiculous attempt to get tobacco subsidies extended until at least 2012.