The phrase "an attempt to please" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort made to satisfy or make someone happy.
Example: "Her actions were clearly an attempt to please her boss and secure a promotion."
Alternatives: "a bid to satisfy" or "an effort to make happy."
He zigzagged on immigration in an attempt to please everyone and predictably pleased no-one.
Frida would devote herself to Strindberg's career in an attempt to please both father and lover.
"Political opportunism," Dr. Kolb said, adding that the implication of close cultural ties between Troy and Anatolia was an attempt to please the project's Turkish collaborators.
After cramming his schedule in an attempt to please everyone -- including the Davis Cup team -- he found out that his mother and sister had cancer.
A Wisconsin state appeals court ruled on Wednesday that two girls accused of trying to kill their classmate in an attempt to please the fictional horror character Slender Man should be tried as adults.
Officials now often talk of setting up "happiness indices" by which government performance should be judged.The word's popularity among bureaucrats is more an attempt to please leaders in Beijing and show sympathy for the less well-off than a sign of any real determination to change their ways.
Shore, most famous for his sensuous scoring of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, took an unusually atonal, virtually a-melodic path that was so severe, it could have been mistaken as a misfired attempt to please sci-fi fans.
The unions are furious at what they regard as a clumsy attempt to please the financial markets.The clash could be but a curtain-raiser if EDF's boss, Pierre Gadonneix, pushes ahead with his plan to transform the giant utility sales last year were €46.9 billion ($58.2 billion)—into a more efficient company.
Many in Russia viewed Vekselberg's action as a transparent attempt to please Putin.
I was no longer living my life in a misguided attempt to please other people.
But it was also a blatant attempt to please party critics who feel that he abandoned Malays at the election.
