Sentence examples for attempts to be something from inspiring English sources

This is comfort food ruined by its attempts to be something spicier – a good piece of cheese on toast buried underneath five kilos of chilli paste.

Maze Grill, though, is attempting to be something entirely other.

There is something else: today's players can sense when a coach is attempting to be something he is not.

Really, the Pixelbook is an attempt to be something for everyone.

HP's first attempt at a consumer tablet failed simply because it attempted to be something special.

So many brands today attempt to be something they are not.

Proof: more than one of Mr. Trump's opponents has fared poorly by attempting to be something they are not.

Keeping up with the Kardashians is a show about fake women trying to be perceived as real; Scott is unquestionably its realest character by virtue of attempting to be something fake.

The design by Mr. Adjmi is full of echoes of the industrial past of TriBeCa, while attempting, he said, to be something entirely new and different as well.

It was a bipartisan blunder, proposed by both Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton in an attempt to be seen doing something for the ordinary folks.

She can attempt to be good at something that anyone can do (and therefore nothing to be proud of), or she could give up and try to be better at it and thus get the feeling that she is not capable of something that "anyone can do".