Sentence examples for makes scant effort from inspiring English sources

Individually, they're fun to watch, though Leterrier — not an actor's director — makes scant effort to play them off against one another.

Mr. Pinchuk makes scant effort to cloak his wealth, whether it be a $23 million purchase of a Koons sculpture or the $160 million he recently paid for a London estate.

But Mr. Holder's script makes scant effort to correlate the music and the man; he has Monk, who was mostly self-taught and disdainful of musical convention, explain his art unenlighteningly, as pure idiosyncrasy: "Dig, good music fits your ear and sometimes an eight-bar bridge is too long, so I shorten it to five and a half, or three and a half bars.

The programme portrayed the conspiracy theorists as having legitimate arguments and unanswered questions that support their claims, making scant effort to show dissenting views or counterarguments from people who have the audacity to be qualified to discuss the matter.

They claimed to have produced not a solution but The Solution: one that made scant effort to appeal to Republicans or businessmen.Mrs Clinton deserves blame not just for her hubris but for choosing Ira Magaziner personally arrogant, politically naive, economically illiterate to run the health-care taskforce.

Some out there might not like the idea of the musicians of the past honing their craft on the dole and making scant effort to find a "real job", the fact remains that that's where a lot of great music came from.

In a series of actions in Srebrenica that became a model for how not to intervene in a conflict in the future, the U.N. declared the surrounded town a "safe area," seized the heavy weapons that its Bosnian Muslim inhabitants had used to defend themselves, and then made scant effort to protect the enclave when Mladić's forces overran it.

It is the biggest seller of pens and markers in the world and the top seller of picture frames, but it has made scant effort to squeeze suppliers or move production to Asia or Mexico to lower costs.

For instance, Sagmeister and Walsh seem quite confident that symmetry is important, but make scant effort to separate the aesthetic significance from functional advantages (let alone bothering to sort out the complex relationship between aesthetics and functionality with any degree of rigor).

The department, which lost the lawsuit, for years made scant effort to comply with court orders on such issues.

When William left for Ireland in June 1690 Marlborough became commander of all troops and militia in England, and was appointed a member of the Council of Nine to advise Mary on military matters in the King's absence; but she made scant effort to disguise her distaste at his appointment – "I can neither trust or esteem him," she wrote to William.