Sentence examples for attempts to mix from inspiring English sources

Robson attempts to mix things up with a drop shot, but it backfires.

Considered slightly higher-end than the typical fast-food restaurant, this category attempts to mix mass sales with an aura of premium food, specializing in, say, homemade bread or ice cream, often served in a cafe-style setting.

Jones resolved to immortalise the character the Notting Hill producers had seen fit to obliterate in an anecdotal play about a small-part player's attempts to mix it with the big boys.

(It took three days of violence before the reinforcements that rescued Mr Chavez were sent).What is more worrying, though, is the dramatic, and highly visible, failure of attempts to mix conservation and exploitation.

Sedgwick thinks the problem with most attempts to mix circus and theatre is that there is no real integration of the two: "The director wants the performer to look like a bird flying, but all we see is someone executing a fantastic ­somersault on a trampoline".

It is important to remember that attempts to mix business with pleasure can be rather strained.

In general, Gaylin's attempt to mix psychoanalysis with Middle East politics is unsatisfying.

East attempted to mix things up with a weak jump overcall, but not in diamonds.

"Most people recognise that it is an attempt to mix chalk and cheese," he told EurActiv.

Mr. Flay's newest enterprise, Bobby's Burger Palace, is an attempt to mix quality food with convenience.

As a die-hard secularist, I have long bristled at any attempt to mix religion and government, down to the "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.