Sentence examples for brilliant attempt from inspiring English sources

A brilliant attempt at a par save, but it slides past the right side of the cup.

Carberry made a brilliant attempt at the catch, diving across to his left, but the ball was a foot or so wide of his fingertips.

As well as elaborating on all that, she talks about cycling, climate change, buses, congestion, what a Green-led London would be like and makes a brilliant attempt at answering one of my more unreasonable questions.

For every brilliant attempt to get the high blue hardness of a Toledo sky by John Phillips, say, there are half-a-dozen mediocre paintings of bullfights or señoritas.

A single Barnett Newman painting crops up in his meditation here on 'the American sublime'; he is briefly moved to assess the 'new normal' vision of 'St Andy Warholl; and there is, too, a brilliant attempt to locate Jackson Pollock.

As a research fellow at Copenhagen (1854 64), Vigfússon published his first work, the Timatel (1855), a brilliant attempt at establishing the chronologies of the Icelandic family sagas, followed by editions of Icelandic works, the first volume of the Biskupa sögur (1858; "Bishops' Sagas") and the Eyrbyggja saga (1864).

Former Leeds forward Jermaine Beckford attempted a brilliant acrobatic effort that flew just inches over the bar.

A great set-piece of Square Rounds is Haber's brilliant and terrible attempt to justify to his wife what he has done.

Alison Entrekin has made a brilliant and worthwhile attempt at conveying the meaning and the context of the dialogue, but her part-cockney, part-hip-hop gangsterspeak is, inevitably, a black and white impression of Lins's high-definition colour.

The newest addition to this literature, Paul Starr's "Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism," is a brilliant and ambitious attempt to provide a public philosophy for 21st-century American liberalism.

Thomas Hobbes' (1588 1679) brilliant but shocking attempt to derive moral and political obligation from motives of self-interest initiated the British Moralists debate.