Sentence examples for bleak attempt from inspiring English sources

The horror moments included my bleak attempt to create a two-tiered celebration cake.

Anything that doesn't involve a phone screen and hours of bleak attempts at matching with uninterested strangers, basically.

Three of the other soldiers were wounded in the attack, and as Bleak attempted to run to them, he was hit in the leg.

Click here to view video As Thatcher's premiership thundered through its third term, Leigh's feature – his first made specifically for cinema since 1971's Bleak Moments – attempted to come to terms with the ongoing scorched-earth of the British left.

It's a bleak picture, but attempts are being made to address these murmurings of discontent.

Summer-home owners who feel put out by the over-the-top social scene are braving bleak skies in an attempt to recapture the mythical atmosphere that first lured them to the tip of Long Island, be it the blue-blood clubbiness of Southampton or the elegant intellectualism of East Hampton.

Psychologists claim these promises fail because we make too many of them at the last minute; I say it's because they're attempted in bleak January, the month which comprises 31 grey Monday mornings in a row.

There was no exploring the town or anything one likes to do on a trip of free will--it was 100percentt experimental performance, bleak modern composition, and silly attempts to reenact the Fluxus Manifesto.

As bleak as it is, there are attempts to try to support newcomers.

Daphne du Maurier's story becomes a treatment of spiritual desolation in a bleak, wintry Venice, as two parents attempt to recover from the death of their child.

And with the forecast for the weekend looking bleak, Barrow decided to begin his attempt a day early, with two chances to reach his target on Thursday.