Sentence examples for a stupid attempt from inspiring English sources

In fact he stacks the deck with them: the narrator's mother dead by suicide, his wife dead at the hands of a burglar and — in the chilling, riveting, heartbreaking scene that opens the novel — his son, Reuben, dead by a stupid attempt to curry favor with bullying peers.

It was a stupid attempt at humor that backfired.

In a move that nobody on the committee expected, Sen. Rand Paul attached his ISIL Declaration of war to the water bill, infuriating other Republican lawmakers in the room who saw the maneuver as, to put it blunt, a stupid attempt to rush the committee into drafting its own authorization against ISIL.

We will remember the courage of Chelsea's 10 men — after their captain, John Terry, got himself red-carded for a sneaky, stupid attempt to knee his opponent in the thigh from behind.

"These 'smart' sanctions are nothing but a desperate and stupid attempt to exit the dead-end road reached by American and British policies against Iraq," it said.

Roman Polanski and the Hollywood elite; -- Politico and partisanship: The very stupid attempt to link Roman Polanski to Obama and the Democrats, via Hollywood; and.

"You know," he said, "the closest thing to The Monkees that I've seen come along since the Monkees -- 'cause there have been so many attempts, I can't tell you the production meetings I've been in where they said, 'We wanna redo The Monkees,' and they picked my brains, and then they'd do some stupid attempt.

– but I feel stupid attempting to ask a woman on a SlutWalk who wants to reclaim the word slut how she feels when she is actually called a slut.

We have disdainfully rejected the gift of the Mother Earth's bounty freely given and have, instead, overstepped the imperative of our species in our clumsy, stupid attempts to control Nature and deny Her power.

It is a stupid question used to attempt to segregate us.

"Clearly I used a stupid analogy in a poor attempt at humour," Russell said in a statement.