Sentence examples for convoluted attempt from inspiring English sources
In other sports, there might be some redemption coming in the Nuggets' convoluted attempt to trade Carmelo Anthony to, apparently, every team in the N.B.A. Ken Berger writes on CBSSports.com that the Denver Nuggets want more options, although he does not confirm the rumor that they are asking for a planet named after them.
In short, this is the most stupid and convoluted attempt at a meeting I have ever had.
California's convoluted attempt to deregulate electricity was one example.
Last year Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, called it "a convoluted attempt to portray a favourable accounting result" in his general complaint to Barclays' then chairman about the bank's "pattern of behaviour".
The artistic obsession with misery is a convoluted attempt at profundity; the complexity of suffering makes us feel interesting and worldly, but really it only keeps us locked in an endless cycle of self flagellation and mental dead-ends.
The waters are muddied, though, by Michael's increasingly convoluted attempts to deflect his bosses' suspicions.
I'm sure the site was ingenious and groundbreaking but all I can remember about it is a series of increasingly convoluted attempts to attract the attention of Test Match Special.
At the start of his book, throwing in the towel on his convoluted attempts to define history-cum-journalism, Garton Ash writes that the final test must be this: "Is the result true, important, interesting or moving?
When applied to the real world, the math quickly becomes exceedingly convoluted, as it attempts to encompass the extended consequences of every decision.
What happens in between consists of his convoluted, bloodbathed attempt to stand tall.
I have to admit, when I first saw the film when it came out, I found the arbitrariness of this transfer a bit annoying – all my admiration for Kieślowski had been invested in his harder, Polish cinema, and this convoluted fable seemed to attempt to give a gloss to a rather obvious move to a land of plenty and safety.
