Sentence examples for embarrassing effort from inspiring English sources
And "Brazil" (1994), brimming over with undigested research and bad dialogue, stood as an embarrassing effort to translate the Tristan and Iseult legend to South America.
An elaborate gate meant to resemble a three-dimensional work of graffiti is an embarrassing effort to tap into a bygone underground scene.
There, he meets Molly Marisa Tomeii) — Cyrus's mother — and, in a poignantly embarrassing effort to ignite the party, commandeers the living room and shambles along with "Don't You Want Me".
In that period, the Communist left had become insistent about its Americanism, in its rather embarrassing effort to tout American democracy, which it had called "imperialism" until the U.S.S.R. sought the United States as an ally against Hitler.
The award could signal the end of a long and often embarrassing effort by the Air Force to replace its aging tankers, which date to the Eisenhower and Kennedy years.
As the Air Force tries to end its long and often embarrassing effort to buy new aerial fueling tankers, Boeing's supporters are questioning the fairness of the bidding, while its European rival seems confident it will win the $35 billion contract.
The failure to prevent the arsenic poisonings was considered embarrassing, and little effort was made to broadcast the lessons outside of Japan.
Mr. Bush should not be embarrassed by efforts to improve the administration of justice in Texas.
They are also not overly impressed by the embarrassing final act efforts to secure a sequel.
The Taliban under Mansour had succeeded in repeatedly embarrassing the US-led effort in Afghanistan with tenacious and audacious shows of striking power and deep influence over vast swathes of the Central Asian failed state.
It didn't get them anywhere, but their efforts were highly embarrassing to the Trump campaign.
