This week, Hunt attempted to sweet talk the BMA and some 45,000 pissed off junior doctors with a few eleventh hour concessions to his original proposals.
Industrial policy, at times, has seemed to amount to little more than attempts to sweet-talk China and others into funding new nuclear power stations.
And yet, on Sing, we find him palling around with Pharrell Williams, swigging tequila and attempting to sweet-talk a young lady into slaking his fell desires: what appears to be on offer is 48 hours of no-strings attached humping, interspersed with short breaks for booze and drugs, before Sheeran heads back on the road.
Neither of the Clintons could attempt to harness the sweet, nostalgic searching of a song like America without looking ridiculous.
The movie's attempt to be a sweet, sentimental romantic comedy of second chances -- a fusion of the moral uplift of "It's a Wonderful Life" with the sudsy high jinks of a Rock Hudson-Doris Day picture -- fails miserably, thanks to slack writing and Ms. Jolie's abrasive, off-key performance.
Cathy provides another chance for Linney to explore a complicated character, to take a forensic look beneath a life that has, for years, comprised an endless search for the perfect couch, and an equally endless attempt to keep a sweet-but-shallow husband, and an over-indulged son, fed and happy.
Tonight, the Zags play ninth-seeded Wichita State in an attempt to get to the Sweet 16; the game tips off at 8 45 Eastern.
An alternative route to reducing the negative effects of sugar intake has been to attempt to reduce or enhance sweet preference through experience early in life.
My favorite response is short and sweet, "Your attempt to portray me in a negative light is noted".
WWE All Stars comes out early next year, and is THQ's attempt to squeeze every last drop out of that sweet, sweet WWE license.
Without any free hands I use my nose to point at the imaginary sweet spots in attempt to give her some more guidance.
