Sentence examples for impossible attempt from inspiring English sources

In terms of fiction, see also Atonement by Ian McEwan Or, as I refer to it, A Rubbish and Impossible Attempt at Atonement.

It was an almost impossible attempt to make an exhibition just about the way artists have used bronze, but the curator got such great loans that it was a five-star sensation.

Real utopia, Murdoch suggests, exists not in a primitive isolationist lifestyle inspired by William Morris, but in the ongoing struggle to be as virtuous as we can and "find the connexion", the always incomplete and ultimately impossible attempt to generate an imaginative sympathy with others that has little to do with any specific form of faith but comes simply from love.

The Rockets' front office has picked up a glitch in Battier's philanthropic approach to the game: in the final second of any quarter, finding himself with the ball and on the wrong side of the half-court line, Battier refuses to heave it honestly at the basket, in an improbable but not impossible attempt to score.

Putin's making military deaths a state secret is a vain and impossible attempt to suppress the information networks triggered by military deaths.

Any Brexit difficulties "pale into insignificance against the prospect of remaining shackled to a declining European Union which is desperately trying to grab more and more centralising powers in the impossible attempt to manage the growing roar of rejection from its own member citizens.

Some exceptions are also made for "impossible attempts", which are divided into legal impossibility, impossibility through ineptitude and physical impossibility.

Putnam, by arguing that such a scenario is impossible, attempts to show that this notion of a gap between man's concept of the world and the way it is, is in itself absurd.

It's impossible to attempt to do both.

It is virtually impossible to attempt a unitary characterization of nonfictional prose.

It was both unnecessary and impossible to attempt to do it better.