Sentence examples for a ludicrous attempt from inspiring English sources

No, say his opponents (and most historians), who see this as a ludicrous attempt to link modern-day Slovakia to an ethnically pure superpower in the dim and distant past.

Mother!" This anguished moment, brought home by Mr. Birney with a radioactive intensity, is followed by the play's almost farcical climax, as Vanya lurches from a tragic figure to a comic one, storming back onstage to make a ludicrous attempt to avenge himself by shooting Serebryakov.

Then a ludicrous attempt to force the First Family and congressmen to buy insurance from the ACA exchanges.

Meanwhile Violet's depression gets worse, until Tate shows her a box of possessions belonging to the house's previous residents – one of whom is recognised by Vivien … Rebecca Nicholson Another deadly undercover assignment for Jonathan this week when a case takes him to a health spa: cue what's probably his most ludicrous attempt at a disguise yet – some towels.

But a part of me has always been fascinated by the seedy, sticky world of the London clubbing culture I never really got to experience, bar a few ludicrous attempts to get into such places in my mid-teens.

The characters are so perfectly inhabited that they don't just have you cackling at their misfortune, they wring genuine pathos out of them – particularly Chabuddy G, whose ludicrous attempt to fashion a successful marriage with a mail-order Polish bride manages to be packed with both schadenfreude and heartbreak.

Trump's ludicrous attempt to downgrade the slaughter of a journalist for an American newspaper, who lived in the United States after he fled his country for fear of reprisals, is stunning.

You can feel the grit of real events inside the comedy, such as the ludicrous attempt to translate the genial babblings of a patient speaking some unidentified Indian language (they discover she's been saying "I want to die.

Bathos, (from Greek bathys, "deep"), unsuccessful, and therefore ludicrous, attempt to portray pathos in art, i.e., to evoke pity, sympathy, or sorrow.

I am appalled and embarrassed at my home state of Louisiana for tolerating Governor Bobby Jindal's recent ludicrous attempt to stifle equal rights based on religious views.

"It happens at the production of climate chaos not the ludicrous attempt for political management, which is the [COP21]." Follow Ashley Renders on Twitter: @iamrenders.