Sentence examples for lackluster attempt from inspiring English sources

Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, speaking at the Capitol, expressed annoyance at what they saw as Mr. Lauer's lackluster attempt to hold Mr. Trump accountable for some of his more unusual comments.

After a lackluster attempt by Oneida to bring American Modern to the masses via Bed Bath and Beyond in 2002 (curves were deleted, sizes amped up, and the 16 new, uninflected colors were reminiscent of Necco Wafers), Russel Wright Studios — under the direction of the designer's daughter, Annie Wright, and the industrial designer Patrick Dickson — is taking American Modern back into its own hands.

Don't expect Spotify's lackluster attempt at original video to help it defeat Apple Music or YouTube.

At the time, Fallon, a former breakout star on "Saturday Night Live," where he co-anchored "Weekend Update" with Tina Fey and played memorable characters such as obnoxious IT guy Nick Burns, was rebounding from a lackluster attempt at a film career, starring in the flops "Taxi" and "Fever Pitch".

But a few summers ago, I started bowling regularly and began to notice that when I'd step into an alley, whether it was the sort that exists as a vestige of another era or a lackluster attempt to keep up with this one, I'd start to feel vaguely sick.

And surely the president was able to give it, just after his lackluster attempt at West Point to parse his strategy for the Afghanistan War, because he had had to drill down to figure out exactly how it had come to pass that he, a war president, was accepting a prize for peace.

Puig would sit for his lackluster effort.

That would include Helio Castroneves, who drives for the team owned by the racing mogul Roger Penske, and the Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon, who found speed in practice Friday after lackluster qualifying attempts.

The premiere follows a string of recent lackluster drama attempts, including "Mind Games" and "Killer Women". .

Traders have largely shrugged off the stock's lackluster performance, and are attempting to call a bottom to its decline.

The move puts Google on to Apple's turf in an attempt to boost the lackluster sales of watches running on its Android Wear software.