Sentence examples for efforts at topicality from inspiring English sources

"The Event" checks off efforts at topicality.

Rather, the film's sometimes clumsy efforts at topicality illuminate the conflicted psychology of its main character, Samir Horn Don Cheadlee).

In other stories, the environmental concern feels like a forced attempt at topicality.

Scenes from the Depression are linked with today's Occupy Wall Street protests, and this attempt at topicality comes off as abrupt and hollow.

And here, "MXC" will kick off its new season of 26 shows on Thursday night with its first stab at topicality, an election-themed episode titled, with appropriate grossness, "Squeeze Out the Vote".

Although the climax — tied to the 2005 London bombings — is a jarring stab at topicality, Eberstadt creates a captivating portrait of how people living hand-me-down lives, laden with objects and personal histories, start to write stories of their own.

The new show takes some stabs at topicality: the leader of the Klingons, for example, is a Bannon-esque figure who, in response to the Federation's galactic cosmopolitanism, adopts the slogan "Remain Klingon!" Deep down, though, the spirit of "Discovery" remains essentially retro.

Some efforts at networking can backfire.

Efforts at triage are readily evident.

The efforts at reconciliation have paid off.

Tells about efforts at economic reform.