I like the idea of pecan-crusted salmon, a Southern twist to the ubiquitous fish, though I haven't yet had a chance to sample it.The vegetable lasagna, with its compilation of collard greens, zucchini, squash, carrots, broccoli and portobello mushrooms, tastes more like a half-hearted attempt to please a trouble-making vegetarian than a true effort.
Like many of the painters and composers during these years (notably Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky), Matisse relaxed into a modernized sort of classicism and into a rather evident attempt to please an art public that was a bit tired of attempts to shock it.
On Saturday night at Radio City Music Hall, she operated in a realm far removed from most performers' attempts to please a crowd: a realm of long memory, odd caprices and ambivalence about the confines of pop.
Focusing on vague, overarching policies that attempt to please all and affect none no longer works.
He zigzagged on immigration in an attempt to please everyone and predictably pleased no-one.
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.
Cost control, he says, is hopeless; products come in far too many variants, a misguided attempt to please the customer; and some companies have more than a year's production sitting in their warehouse.These habits are largely a legacy of the planned economy, in which success was measured by output, and a manager's biggest fear was to run out of parts and raw materials.
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.
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.
