Sentence examples for blatant bid from inspiring English sources

In a blatant bid to buy time, I take her to the canteen.

I ignore this although it's a blatant bid for sympathy that I'm sure is untrue.

The last detail, the "orange-flavored lids," particularly grates — it seems like such a blatant bid for synesthesia, unearned.

He accused Mr. Hevesi of issuing the report in a blatant bid for labor support in the forthcoming Democratic primary.

It was interpreted as a blatant bid for backbench women's support, a way of neutralising concerns about his anti-abortion stance which some people thought might influence him in the job.

And when, in a 1999 presidential debate, Mr. Bush said Christ was his favorite philosopher, "because he changed my heart," some saw it as a blatant bid for the evangelical vote.

He avoids blatant bids for compassion.

Or maybe three times, I can't remember, since the "shock" value of John rolling down his jumper and then tearing at Julie's top was so blatant a bid for "drama" that its cheapness was the least of my problems.

2) Sienna Miller's go-getting Tammy hastily smudges her lipstick in a bid for less blatant sexiness in this scene from Layer Cake.

Kristen Bell is a fish-out-of-water L.A. on-air personality working the story; there's also a blatant and not entirely successful bid to add a native Alaskan preteen (Ahmaogak Sweeney) as demographically appealing narrator.

Christie is expected to speak at about 10pm on the Jersey Shore in the venue immortalized by Bruce Springsteen in what many observers see as a blatant launching pad for a 2016 presidential bid.