Sentence examples for a brilliant attempt from inspiring English sources

A brilliant attempt at a par save, but it slides past the right side of the cup.

Carberry made a brilliant attempt at the catch, diving across to his left, but the ball was a foot or so wide of his fingertips.

As well as elaborating on all that, she talks about cycling, climate change, buses, congestion, what a Green-led London would be like and makes a brilliant attempt at answering one of my more unreasonable questions.

A single Barnett Newman painting crops up in his meditation here on 'the American sublime'; he is briefly moved to assess the 'new normal' vision of 'St Andy Warholl; and there is, too, a brilliant attempt to locate Jackson Pollock.

As a research fellow at Copenhagen (1854 64), Vigfússon published his first work, the Timatel (1855), a brilliant attempt at establishing the chronologies of the Icelandic family sagas, followed by editions of Icelandic works, the first volume of the Biskupa sögur (1858; "Bishops' Sagas") and the Eyrbyggja saga (1864).

But last week, off the coast of England in the final miles of what had started as a brilliant attempt to break the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic under sail, it was light air, not big breeze, that instilled the collective case of onboard ennui.

For every brilliant attempt to get the high blue hardness of a Toledo sky by John Phillips, say, there are half-a-dozen mediocre paintings of bullfights or señoritas.

Former Leeds forward Jermaine Beckford attempted a brilliant acrobatic effort that flew just inches over the bar.

Alison Entrekin has made a brilliant and worthwhile attempt at conveying the meaning and the context of the dialogue, but her part-cockney, part-hip-hop gangsterspeak is, inevitably, a black and white impression of Lins's high-definition colour.

The newest addition to this literature, Paul Starr's "Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism," is a brilliant and ambitious attempt to provide a public philosophy for 21st-century American liberalism.

Pope Benedict XVI is a brilliant theologian who is attempting to set down the principles and the framework of a debate on the past, present and future identity of Europe.