Sentence examples for grim attempt from inspiring English sources

For 30 days, each morning I would walk through the city, stopping to buy my baguette and coffee, pretending to be offended when the waiter laughed as my grim attempt at French was replaced by sign language.

Teams of specialists - forensic experts and pathologists - were last night continuing their grim attempts to identify the corpses.

Since John Paul II's election as Pope in 1978, there have been grim attempts to suppress growing Catholic calls for married clergy, for women clergy, for a greater real place for the laity in church decision-making, even merely for a real say for bishops of the church in decision-making.

'Alex Cross' (PG-13, 1 41) Tyler Perry stars in this grim, maladroit attempt to kick-start a new franchise pegged to the James Patterson character played in two earlier movies by Morgan Freeman.

@EverydaySexism "How do you like you eggs in the morning?" - grim late night pickup attempt.

Grim Fandango was an attempt by LucasArts to rejuvenate the graphic adventure genre, in decline by 1998.

Grim explained that historically, similar attempts to legalize marijuana have been hurt by voters who developed cold feet as election day approached.

Was acting in some way an attempt to escape that grim childhood?

To his credit, Exxon's chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, has made little attempt to mask the grim economics of the natural gas market.

"Port", an account of a Stockport girl's attempts to escape her grim origins, was a success at the National Theatre this spring.

English newspaper the News Chronicle stated that the emergence of Nash was "a grim prospect for England in its attempts to recover the Ashes".