Sentence examples for disappointing attempt from inspiring English sources

When her Columbia contract finally expired with "The Impatient Years," a disappointing attempt to recapture the urgent wartime romance of "The More the Merrier," Arthur immediately fled the lot, never to return.

The twelfth novel by Godwin, a three-time National Book Award nominee best known for her sharp women characters and Southern sensibility, is a disappointing attempt to recycle in fiction the youthful passion, determination, and self-doubt that she has written about with vitality in recently published journals.

And unlike Wikia Search, the startup's disappointing attempt at creating a crowd-sourced search engine experience that was shut down by the company a couple of months ago, Wikianswers seems to have gotten a bit of traction with that strategy.

Sometimes, that remix was a disappointing attempt to cash in on the remix craze and rip off the music fan.

However, it was a disappointing attempt at being ultra-sexy that failed along with her textured bob hairstyle.

The story goes Bob wrote "Corner Stone" after a disappointing attempt to approach his white kin, who owned a building company in Jamaica.

Romania's first real democratic president since the early 20th century, Emil Constantinescu, is departing after four years in office with disappointing attempts at reform.

But Sadlowski was soon transferred to another division and thus went the first in a string of disappointing attempts to enlist law enforcement.

I felt like I was getting closer.†But Sadlowski was soon transferred to another division and thus went the first in a string of disappointing attempts to enlist law enforcement.

PrEP almost seemed like a miracle when it was first approved in 2012: after years of failed efforts to develop an HIV vaccine and other disappointing attempts at developing HIV prevention products, PrEP had nearly 100% efficacy in preventing HIV among drug-adherent MSM and transgender women.

Despite the challenges and many disappointing attempts to translate positive results from animal models into effective human therapies, there are also some notable successes.