The rest of the film — directed by Blain with the harrowing calm of an intimate confession — follows Paul in his obsessive, desperate, coldly calculated effort to see his son again.
"We believe the N.Y.P.D. engaged in a premeditated, planned, scripted and calculated effort to get the protesters off the street," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is representing the protesters.
Democrat and Republican strategists alike have been furiously spinning the other sides' verbal mastery in a highly calculated effort to lower the bar for their guy.
We calculated effort as the approximate number of person hours taken for field sampling and processing of each replicate of each sampling method.
A truly calculated effort.
She doesn't have to – the calculated effort speaks for itself.
Some see his presentation as a calculated effort to disarm.
Each cover, she said, represents a calculated effort to promote the family name.
Genocide is defined as a calculated effort to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
It also says the tabloids paid for false statements "in a calculated effort" to increase profits.
Or perhaps his press-aversion is a calculated effort to sustain his mystique.
