Sentence examples for ludicrous attempt from inspiring English sources

No, say his opponents (and most historians), who see this as a ludicrous attempt to link modern-day Slovakia to an ethnically pure superpower in the dim and distant past.

You can feel the grit of real events inside the comedy, such as the ludicrous attempt to translate the genial babblings of a patient speaking some unidentified Indian language (they discover she's been saying "I want to die.

Mother!" This anguished moment, brought home by Mr. Birney with a radioactive intensity, is followed by the play's almost farcical climax, as Vanya lurches from a tragic figure to a comic one, storming back onstage to make a ludicrous attempt to avenge himself by shooting Serebryakov.

The characters are so perfectly inhabited that they don't just have you cackling at their misfortune, they wring genuine pathos out of them – particularly Chabuddy G, whose ludicrous attempt to fashion a successful marriage with a mail-order Polish bride manages to be packed with both schadenfreude and heartbreak.

Meanwhile Violet's depression gets worse, until Tate shows her a box of possessions belonging to the house's previous residents – one of whom is recognised by Vivien … Rebecca Nicholson Another deadly undercover assignment for Jonathan this week when a case takes him to a health spa: cue what's probably his most ludicrous attempt at a disguise yet – some towels.

Then a ludicrous attempt to force the First Family and congressmen to buy insurance from the ACA exchanges.

Of course Rooney hasn't been afforded the best conditions in which to build his season, having been deployed in the centre of midfield in Louis van Gaal's ludicrous attempts to shoehorn every attacking player at his disposal into a functional team.

Whether they encounter starstruck fans, cynical critics, or frustrated fetishists, celebrity interactions with the public can verge from fawning adulation to ludicrous attempts at authenticity.

But a part of me has always been fascinated by the seedy, sticky world of the London clubbing culture I never really got to experience, bar a few ludicrous attempts to get into such places in my mid-teens.

American rule-makers have signalled they would like to extend "mark-to-market" accounting to loan books as well as securities, whereas the standard-setting body that decides the rules in most other countries is moving in the other direction.Since accounting largely defines what capital is, it is ludicrous to attempt a common capital standard without fairly homogenous book-keeping standards.

It was ludicrous to try to attempt it in the same week that the decision on the euro was announced.