Sentence examples for a laughable attempt from inspiring English sources

A cult classic, perhaps, which satisfies two fundamental criteria: 1) a laughable attempt at tactical insight, and 2) exclaimed almost instinctively, every single time.

Such works of art as NBC's "Bionic Woman," about a young girl's strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk, and ABC's "Cavemen," a laughable attempt to address the racial prejudices the Geico cavemen face in everyday life (real brave, Hollywood…), are on sites like The Pirate Bay.

RadarOnline speculates that the man is a Tiger decoy sent to throw people off the trail, while the Enquirer calls it a "laughable attempt to cover up" Woods' presence.

To Indonesia's scientific community, the orang pendek is a joke, and crypto-zoologists are engaged in little more than a laughable attempt to prove the existence of a myth.

Then we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.' Pearce, in his resignation statement, made a laughable attempt to walk back these remarks: 'This was a mistake.

There follows a laughable effort from Fabregas.

'It will be a wake-up call,' says Gross. 'The reaction in the fashion business will be a blatant and almost laughable attempt to catch up.

Laughable attempt to turn Lautner into a teen Bourne, undone by dumb dialogue and thespian limitations.

Mitt Romney's latest laughable attempt to "prove" he would have ordered the bin Laden raid is now based on comparing himself, supposedly as tougher, to former naval officer and President Jimmy Carter.

And, as the PNG and Australian governments offered no real defence for the regime – save for an almost-laughable attempt to insist the men on Manus were "not in detention" – the supreme court's decision was the only one it could credibly arrive at.

But in far too many others, our we have constructed a perfect-storm-in-waiting of tightly coupled networks, zero oversight, and laughable attempts at security.