Sentence examples for a spirited attempt from inspiring English sources

Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey sounds like a spirited attempt to bore racists to death.

Evan Davis made a spirited attempt to find out - but George Osborne wasn't saying.

In this video segment shot in Minnesota, a spirited attempt to sample lutefisk leads to "a don't-eat-this seizure".

This novel is a spirited attempt to cram her entire cultural and family heritage into a story.

It's a spirited attempt at rehabilitation and Pound asks the reader to judge for themselves if it is successful.

The Italian reporter made a spirited attempt at resistance, dashing down the street to interview someone whenever his translator's back was turned.

Deputy Mayor Sophie Linden initially sought to defend the council's actions by claiming that, "Of course there is no point fining people who can't pay, and we will not seek to do this," suggesting that the Public Space Protection Order was like the nuclear deterrent of housing policy never to be actually used rather than a mean spirited attempt to brush a difficult problem under the carpet.

The ghostly characters in his books are involved in a forlorn but spirited attempt to reconstruct the pasts of the landscapes they are travelling through.

It was an obvious, and mean spirited, attempt to draw a comparison between Mr Browne's appearance and Shakespeare's libellous portrayal of the Yorkist king.

When McCluster was in the end zone 89 yards later, the air had gone out of the Giants' spirited attempt at a first victory in the 2013 season.

Huddersfield deserved something from the attack since Jon Stankovic's spirited attempt to set up a length-of-the-field breakaway from a Wolves corner had been cynically halted on the edge of the visitors' area by the chasing Ryan Bennett.