Sentence examples for inept attempt from inspiring English sources

The first episode of Motherland, starring Anna Maxwell Martin, revolves around an inept attempt to cadge some free childcare and the self-anaesthetising power of wine.

So faking a spectacularly inept attempt to "do Twitter" just seemed funny – as did picking a real, but nearly forgotten, brand to do it.

So begins the women's comically inept attempt at bettering their lives by immoral means, a process that is somewhat improbably stretched out to fill two hours of stage time through a series of twists that keep them bickering and plotting and exchanging mournful recriminations as poor Davy stiffens in the bathroom.

The joke rang through my head like an epigraph to the ninety minutes of murk prophetically titled "This Thing of Darkness" (at the Atlantic Theatre Company), an inept attempt by Craig Lucas and David Schulner to let their minds and their soi-disant characters wander from the present to twenty-five and fifty years hence.

Stereotypes and incomprehension have dominated the view of French music from these shores: the classic chansons of the mid-century are seen as a quaint but inscrutable mixture of warbling sentimentality, minor chords and accordions; le rock français, a comically inept attempt to play an English and American game.

Throughout the book, "Emily" is haunted by a favourite uncle whose pathetic and inept attempt at suicide had bewildered those who knew him, even though he was, quite clearly, one of those people who "have no idea what to do next, how to move backward or forward".

At the end of graffiti's heyday, I made a few inept attempts at participation.

Their inept attempts to launch a nine-metre boat with multiple mechanical problems provided one clue.

He painfully recounts the mistakes he and Jeanne made, including misreading Joe's earlier "inept" attempts at suicide.

The coalition has so far colluded with this through its inept attempts to challenge the producers to be responsible.

There are humorous moments, such as Piot's inept attempts at collecting bats in Africa for testing.