The phrase "absurd attempts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe efforts or endeavors that are unreasonable, illogical, or ridiculous in nature.
Example: "Despite the absurd attempts to solve the problem, the team was unable to find a viable solution."
Alternatives: "ridiculous efforts" or "foolish endeavors."
All the absurd attempts to use statistics to lie about this truth can't change that fact.
Many of the people he writes about seem to have grown hypersensitive to any loss of control; they pathologically fixate on absurd attempts to regulate the uncontrollable.
Calls to let German wages rise as fast as German productivity, to allow peripheral countries to close the gap with German labor costs, are derided in Berlin as absurd attempts to curb German competitiveness.
Like Ahab, he's so consumed with absurd attempts to prove he actually won Florida by nine votes that one friend described him to The A.P.'s Sandra Sobieraj as a "lost soul".
There is is a specific Uglish Facebook page: "the home of all those who appreciate Ugandans' efforts at speaking the English language, or those who simply get amused by the absurd attempts".
Less absurd attempts at shark-attack cinema don't have quite the same wiggle room, but they can still bring something new to the table.
This leads Camus to conclude that creative activity, like all free activities, is in the end only another absurd attempt at dealing with the absurdity of human life (1942b, 130).
The Florida court found this an absurd attempt to use the Second Amendment to squash the First.
First we had the absurd attempt to change the name to Hull Tigers, which sounds like a circus act.
He has been mocked for an absurd attempt at Twitter-based seduction, and fined, in a different incident, for tweeting a picture of a woman's bare behind.
Film director Gary Love, who owns the York & Albany, had described Ramsay's legal challenge as an "absurd" attempt to wriggle out of his rental commitments.
