Sentence examples for impoverished attempt at from inspiring English sources

Potty humor may amuse a child but the mature adult sees it as the impoverished attempt at humor that it is.

Nyerere's calm, dignified, scholarly demeanor enabled him to rake in billions of dollars in foreign aid, all of it wasted on destructive government-run economic schemes, including a Soviet-style attempt at collective agriculture that further impoverished an already poor area and led to enormous suffering.

The attempt at peace failed.

NOPI was an attempt at both.

What a terrible attempt at positive spin.

An attempt at resuscitation is under way.

It was an attempt at self-hypnosis.

The shooter has one attempt at each.

There is no attempt at arbitrage".

This is their attempt at triage".

It was my attempt at being arty.