Sentence examples for ghastly attempt from inspiring English sources
The ghastly attempt at ornamentation only serves to make ridiculous what in the severe simplicity of utility might have been forgiven".
She is a frumpy, volatile pimp who has just recruited a new girl -- or "goyl," as Ms. Blethyn puts it in her ghastly attempt at a Crescent City accent -- and she wants to fix the two young people up, professionally and otherwise.
If this were an episode of Come Dine With Me, Mr Hudson would be round N-Dubzs' gaff, quaffing Chablis and doing a POV to camera about Dappy's "ghastly" attempt at artichoke hearts in gravy, intercut with shots of him peering down Tulisa's top.
He characterized the title track as a "ghastly attempt" at arena rock that "even Bon Jovi would have thought twice about releasing as a B-side".
There's not much to the show beyond Stuart's ghastly attempts to pick up women.
Whatever the attempt at a grand metaphorical umbrella, the plot runs amok with outlandish scenarios and ghastly attempts at humor, as when Purvis blows up an abortion clinic and injures an acquaintance.
"Dear Lord and Father, show me the way – Latitude or Bestival?" It turns out that Satan doesn't have all the best tunes after all, because it's actually rather a good list: nothing outrageously shit, nothing too fleeting and no ghastly attempts to be down with the kids.
Their spirituality and traditional beliefs should not be insulted by beating tom-toms, the wearing of a feather head-dress, nor ghastly attempts at singing Native American songs.
Season 1 ends with a woman being accused of ghastly crimes — attempting to pass off fake Hermès bags and wearing non-designer attire.
In 1924, Erich von Stroheim — legendary for insisting that extras in his costume dramas be issued period-correct silk undies — vainly sought to have his epic "Greed" released in an eight-hour version; from that attempt it was a short, ghastly step to the three-hour-and-fifty-three-minute director's cut of "Dances with Wolves".
John Prior, reconstructed the ghastly scene for me, and the failed attempts in the medic tent to save Mayek's life.
