Sentence examples for insane attempt from inspiring English sources

But I was the one who'd lacked the guts — to fail, to succeed, to engage with the whole undignified, insane attempt at originality.

A couple of years ago my husband, Dan, and I embarked on what many people considered to be an insane attempt to make our good marriage better (which I wrote about for the Sunday Magazine).

In the equivalent of Monica's blue dress, Young decided to save the "corroborating" cascade of fretting, preening phone messages from Edwards, checking on the paramour and courtier he had exiled and slandered in an insane attempt to stop his presidential bid from exploding.

With the incident at the Washington, DC Pentagon Metro station last week we have two occasions in a few weeks of someone who was reported to be obsessively paranoid about the US Government taking his own and others' lives in a futile and misguided, if not to say insane, attempt to express his rage.

But if there is still a lot going on in feminism right now, too much of it centers around sex. It's no wonder, of course: with the draconian birth control laws some Republicans wish to re-instate, the insane attempt to repeal abortion freedom that has captured the airwaves, the overwhelming wish by too many men (yes, it is mostly all men) to slide women backwards is extremely troubling.

"These short-lived constructions are the great disaster left by the Chinese real estate industry's insane attempts to make money," the report stated, citing an absence of earthquake- or fire-safety rules.

Isabella, however, went insane, attempting suicide by hurling herself off a ship, and was sent away while a distraught Thackeray labored on, managing financial woes by working as a journalist and serial novelist for middlebrow magazines.

And exactly the same argument goes for the Bush administration's insane attempts to reserve the right to torture people.These arguments have gone well past points of principle; they are to do with the hard pragmatic task of grinding out a victory against a relentless enemy.

And that willingness to attempt insane, impossible movies has all but vanished from contemporary English-language filmmaking.

The last time this insane trick was attempted, a century ago, a bold magician enlisted an audience member to shoot the gun and then promptly had his head blown off (blowing, also, the mind of the innocent shooter).

His maternal grandmother committed suicide while insane, his aunt attempted suicide., and his eldest sister committed suicide in old age.