Sentence examples for a silly attempt from inspiring English sources

Vincent Gigante, who once wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in pajamas and bathrobe in what the government said was a silly attempt to show that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial for his mob-related crimes, lost his final appeal yesterday when the United States Supreme Court refused to hear his case.

Yet as the demo of Real Racing 3 at the event showed, innovation is as likely to come from canny use of Apple's software as from its hardware: the idea of "time-shifted multiplayer" sounded like a silly attempt to rebrand ghost racing, before EA's Rob Murray explained that players will be able to bump their friends' cars and affect their times – even if that friend raced the day before.

Yes, this is horse shit and a silly attempt to curb something that is unstoppable but I'm sure it will only last for a few months.

In a silly attempt to stand up for reason, the Centers for Disease control and various medical authorities say these quarantines may actually hinder the Ebola fight and are not medically necessary, which shows what they know.

The news media in this state can be so toothless (unlike, say, the much more aggressive New York or Washington, D.C. press corps) that in a silly attempt to seem "fair and balanced," they actually tend to report things like, "Poizner accuses Whitman of ducking debates and the news media," as if to suggest there is some controversy about this matter.

5 Nick De Luca:   Got sin-binned for a very silly attempt to kick the ball from Gori's hands and then came back on, only to see Hamilton to depart.

None was more offensive than Trump's proposal to temporarily halt Muslims from entering the U.S. in a downright silly attempt to curb terrorist attacks.

Just the picture of him smiling as he makes a few silly attempts to pat the calf's head, or watching him pedal his bike with such determination, reminds me again of my gratitude to Katie Beckett, her mother, and Ronald Reagan: because of them, we have not missed these moments.

Bow down to the Deadpool marketing team, for they've followed up their recent rom-com stunt with yet another brazenly silly attempt to fool and confuse the unaware.

Ryan is also a kindred spirit in his silly attempts to run from his own reality.

Despite the Obama campaign's silly attempts to deny it, Romney goes into the debates as a big underdog.