The sets and costumes of the reconstruction, by Jérôme Kaplan, are more richly detailed and subtler than most, but the ballet's elephants, Indian dancers and priests still need to be taken with a pinch of salt, which renders Ratmansky's attempt at renewed depth somewhat moot.
If they do not, attempts at renewed diplomacy are doomed to fail, Israelis will become more skeptical about the peace process, and we in the Israeli government will have greater difficulty taking the additional confidence-building steps that we have been considering.
Just as Podemos represented an attempt to renew the left, Ciudadanos constituted an attempt at renewal on the right, with a particular stress on clean government.
But in other respects, I've failed miserably at my attempt to renew myself.
Public and political opinion have become so hostile that the government may refuse to sign off on any attempt to renew the bid, even at the risk of a judicial review.
If "Lucking Out" is an attempt to renew his fan's credentials (at one point, he cheers on Kael for "pinning the bony tail of Didion's pretensions"), his motives for the change of heart are never clear.
It was a visceral attempt to renew faith in capitalism.
Their attempt to renew the debate about torture is itself torture.
After briefly considering a renewed attempt at a political career, he edited the BBC-owned Listener magazine which he tried to turn, with mixed results, into something more than radio talks in print.
WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a sweeping new farm bill on Monday that will cost nearly $955 billion over the next 10 years, the first step in a renewed attempt at passing legislation that will set the country's food and agriculture programs and policy.
