Predictable adjectives, dull verbs, zero tension in the line breaks, no discernible effort at musicality.
He's singing much more and making no discernible effort to dress up his unschooled voice.
Art is supposed to come out of some discernible effort on the part of the artist, and the apparent effortlessness of a good joke inevitably undermines that expectation.
Without any discernible effort, Britain's medal hope sends several stones arcing into the middle of the target painted on the ice some 90 feet away.
In others, it recognises some of the positive aspects of the new Kenyan constitution and makes a faint-hearted but discernible effort to enshrine citizen rights.
The others perform duets that look best when there's no discernible effort: Robert Fairchild, opposite Sterling Hyltin, glides breezily through toe-flicking footwork, but Ask la Cour, in a debut, is ungainly in his partnering of a muted Teresa Reichlen.
So does the lack of any discernible effort to diminish the screeching noise on the main, street-level floor, where the crowd around the semicircular bar leaves you almost no room for loitering if your table isn't ready.
As long as Yasir Arafat makes no discernible effort to comply with the critical prerequisites of the road map -- a halt to violence and inciteful rhetoric against Israeli civilians -- Israel should be under no compulsion to comply with its commitments.
Chaffin says she made a discernible effort to stay in touch with executives in other parts of the company, putting together a portfolio of people she thought could broaden her knowledge and skill base.
Syria's government was making "no discernible effort" to identify and protect victims of trafficking, the report said, and could now be subject to US sanctions for dropping into the bottom tier.
Just a decade or so ago it would've been impossible to imagine him clawing his way back into the good graces of the public in such a short amount of time and with so little discernible effort, and yet here he is now -- his transformation from cynical, reptilian liar and philanderer to mildly respectable public servant complete in the eyes of his constituents.
