Sentence examples for artful attempt from inspiring English sources
A QUAKE STILL FELT -- San Francisco's oldest art museum, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is making an artful attempt to stave off the awful consequences of the 1989 earthquake that badly damaged the building, a depository of some of the nation's finest examples of American art.
It was also an artful attempt to rally female voters whose support for Romney is dangerously weak, by appealing to them as the new silent majority.
Some will be exhausted by the tentacular punning paragraphs, but "Witz" is a brave and artful attempt to explore and explode the limits of the sentence.
Actually, few people bought into Coach Jeff Van Gundy's artful attempt to cast his playoff-tested Knicks as the desperate underdogs against a Raptor team led by a neophyte star like Vince Carter.
With The Social Network, Hollywood has made an artful attempt at taking the inferiority, fear and awe that it feels towards Silicon Valley and projecting it onto the cold, calculating (and fictional) Zuckerberg; "Creation myths need a devil," spoken by Rashida Jones' Marylin Delpy, is the most resonant line in the film.
It's an entertainment that doesn't purport to be literally faithful to Walter Isaacson's splendid biography -- rather it is an artful attempt to paint in broad but emotionally resonant brushstrokes the essence of Jobs' personality.
The first lemon is for the not-so-artful attempt at a slight of hand.
Juxtaposing psychiatric case notes by the physician-novelist Rivka Galchen with a dramatically illustrated investigation into the devastation of New Orleans, "Invalid Format" is among the most artful new attempts to reinvent the Web by the codex, and the codex by the Web.
There are no botched attempts at artful photos of stale scenes cluttering the feed.
It's an attempt at something artful and opaque yet wrapped in a slick, glossy package, a film that thinks it has something on its mind but is actually terminally vacant.
