Sentence examples for bothered to attempt from inspiring English sources

'HAMLET' In his updating of Shakespeare, the director Michael Almereyda does something few other film versions of "Hamlet" have ever bothered to attempt, and makes this melancholy-Dane story a singular achievement in the bargain.

But the actor, who is 72, has embraced his codgerhood with wry humor, and his old-fashioned, by-the-book approach to filmmaking offers some satisfactions that younger, flashier thriller-mongers don't bother to attempt (A. O. Scott).

Few people know how to go about either; fewer bother to attempt, and fewer still succeed.

She wouldn't be bothering to attempt this strategy if she were wholly unconcerned about Bernie's chances, to state the obvious.

Though he hasn't been a leading man for many years, the imitators we're left with now are pale to the point of translucency – the Tatums, the Worthingtons, the Hemsworths, they don't even bother to attempt what Nicholson could do at his peak.

Do not even bother to attempt this in Core, as the lack of Stopping Power will make it impossible to achieve any real success.

She would have been up since four, preparing dinner for fifty or more…She had learned to cook by watching her mother in Calcutta and she insisted on undertaking the labor-intensive dishes that most of my parents' friends no longer bothered to attempt… On rare occasions, she might let me roll out a luchi, but the message was clear: cooking was her jurisdiction.

Labour complained that neither the home secretary nor any education ministers had bothered to turn up after previously blocking attempts to bring in compulsory sex and relationship lessons.

His untried troops hardly bothered to return fire, some throwing down their weapons before attempting to run away through the swampy terrain.

Nobody bothered to check.

Only one bothered to answer.