Sentence examples for intelligent attempt from inspiring English sources

"It was a good project," he contended, "an intelligent attempt to consider the wrongs of Rwanda.

But East's play represented an intelligent attempt to defeat the contract.

Edward Kemp's 5/11 at Chichester was a highly intelligent attempt to intimate the parallels and differences between al-Qa'ida and the Catholic plotters of 1605.

One critic called it a "humorous and poignant production" and an "intelligent attempt to make a timeless story even more accessible and exciting for a young audience".

These included Cold Heaven (1991) and the TV movie of Heart of Darkness (1993), an intelligent attempt at Joseph Conrad's novel.

Middle-of-the-night calls were confessed to, and an intelligent attempt was made to contextualize the event in a longer global history of political tragedy and war conducted in urban streets.

Written nearly 10 years ago, it's a hazy and outdated overview of artificially intelligent attempts at poetic creativity.

An earlier programme of his, "Millennium Minds", also on Channel 4, was one of the more intelligent attempts to mark the start of the next 1,000 years.

Although just 13% of beer in the UK is drunk by women – and despite a few ill-judged attempts to market women-only beers – the industry is making intelligent attempts to attract more female drinkers.

Even the most intelligent attempts to be wholly faithful to his stories and his characters — films like Peter Bogdanovich's "Daisy Miller" (1974), Jane Campion's "Portrait of a Lady" (1996) and Agnieszka Holland's "Washington Square" (1997) — seem finally to bump up against something stubborn and unyielding in the material.

Many smart people have taken big risks and made intelligent attempts at audacious goals but still failed.