Sentence examples for lesser efforts from inspiring English sources

That shouldn't, however, be taken to mean that the poems here are all unformed, lesser efforts.

Back then, although lesser efforts would have been tolerated, the place served decent food.

Winning his first Academy Award this year for one of his lesser efforts, "If I Didn't Have You," didn't persuade him to play the song on Wednesday.

After several lesser efforts, the couple came up with Where Are You Now, a lush ballad that reached No 1 in April 1965.

Among the many problems the Giants have had this season is the fluctuating performance of Sheridan's defense, which has often followed good games with lesser efforts.

On the ice, he comes off as a bit of a whiner, someone who seems perpetually disappointed in the lesser efforts of his comrades and opponents.

"You Shall Know Our Velocity" is a lesser effort, but entirely honorable and ultimately persuasive.

Lily Tuck's "Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived" is another lesser effort by another talented writer known for her spare, lapidarist style.

It was a compilation released by Capitol Records in the United States without the Beatles' direct involvement; it was not "a lesser effort by the Beatles".

Bloomberg administration officials said there had been no change in policy in dealing with the homeless, and no lesser effort to disperse them from the streets than under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

There's also an enjoyable lesser effort, Jorge Grau's The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, which lives up to its splendid title (one of no fewer than 15 titles it has had worldwide).