Sentence examples for a token attempt to from inspiring English sources

There isn't even a token attempt to recap on the plot or explain which elf is which.

When Sophie signals her availability to the passive-aggressive Robert, he seizes his opportunity and makes only a token attempt to conceal his infidelity.

A running subplot that "Scary Movie 3" makes only a token attempt to integrate into the story involves a homicidal videotape that sentences everyone who watches it to death in seven days.

The last few Emmy have at least made a token attempt to be a bit more subversive, mock the industry they are honouring, and attempt to engage a younger audience.

Horne and Corden are the same clueless slackers at the end of the film as they are at the start; the village they visit on a hiking trip is populated by the same mutton-chopped yokels as every other comedy about city slickers in the countryside; and there's not even a token attempt to subvert the Hammer fantasy of libidinous undead Page 3 girls who are there to be gawped at, and then impaled.

"McDonald's has made only a token attempt to inform its customers that it had not made the change to the new cooking oil.

The Pentagon's new contract acquisition policy -- heralded for getting tough on military contractors -- is actually a feeble, token attempt to change a system that has spiraled out of control to the enormous benefit of the defense industry.

Police and security guards made only a token attempt at bundling out demonstrators.

But one particular source for "Vendetta" was not so much imitated as pillaged: the puritanical tone of the English dictatorship, the omnipresent surveillance, the Big Brother figure screaming at everyone — all this has been lifted from George Orwell's "1984," with no more than a token attempt at disguise.

But one particular source for "Vendetta" was not so much imitated as pillaged: the puritanical tone of the English dictatorship, the omnipresent surveillance, the Big Brother figure screaming at everyone all this has been lifted from George Orwell's "1984," with no more than a token attempt at disguise.

But the 44-year-old Episcopal priest's token attempt to take another gun off the streets did little to keep the peace.