Sentence examples for attempts at action from inspiring English sources

Bologna University had been a hotbed of Italian red activism, and the philosophy faculty, where Eco had his office, was often spray-gunned with political slogans and crude attempts at action painting.

Unquestionably successful as an effort to encourage an inclusive, multilevel national conversation, FOBGAPT is the latest in a series of events that, over the past year or so, have begun crystalizing increasingly common foreboding about the system's flaws into attempts at action.

For Camus, the absurd results from the confrontation between "the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world", between our attempts at action, our struggles for meaning and a cold world which constantly transcends our understanding of it.

It could be an action/war film; there seem to be plenty of half-baked attempts at action in the trailer; mainly people standing still, looking at the camera and yelling.

In fact, the brief attempts at action in Telltale's games are clunky, indicating that an emotional investment in a character or story is as much fun to toy with as one's reflexes, the latter being the terrain games have more traditionally focused on.

THERE have also been attempts at affirmative action, with John Paul increasing the number of saints from African and Asian countries.

Political Turbulence reveals that, in fact, most attempts at collective action online do not succeed, but some give rise to huge mobilizations even revolutions.

They inherited the worst economy in 70 years, as well as an opposition party that was dedicated to limiting the administration to one term and that fought attempts at additional action in 2010 and 2011.

Ōkawa personally organized and participated in many of the major rightist attempts at direct action, and during World War II he helped shape much of the Japanese government's domestic propaganda.

Again, contrast this with a White House that can't get a health-care bill passed, can't enact steel tariffs, keeps losing momentum on tax reform and keeps getting blocked by, you know, the rule of law in its attempts at executive action.

The presence of Cruise and Crowe in The Mummy unbalanced Alex Kurtzman's film so severely that it was nearly impossible to recall that this was a film ostensibly designed to chill the spine, so comic were its hamfisted attempts at knockabout action thrills and mega-movie world-building.