It is made worse by some of the works that did win regional awards, which are in the ho-hum, all right, marks-for-effort, B+, bit-better-than-average category.
Government officials concede as many as 184 wolves, comprising two separate packs, have been marked for death in an effort to save the province's dwindling woodland caribou population.
Top marks for effort, Kate.
He concluded: "We'd get lots of marks for effort, but not so many for outcomes".
Even sceptics award the secretary of state high marks for effort and for keeping his powder dry.
(Mr. Grand gave them high marks for effort and solved their problem by letting them see his programming materials).
Yet when it comes to awarding marks for effort, spotless Singapore really should score high on any list given the way it enforces cleanliness and tidiness.
Breakfast meant the same overzealous table service and some truly terrible coffee, but again we gave them full marks for effort.
Sometimes it's a little too smoov – Something Goes Right is like Jamiroquai meets Jean Michel Jarre in dubstep space – and the multiple mood changes can make it seem characterless, but full marks for effort, and good effort for the masks.
Mrs M Snr, meanwhile, is coeliac and asks for a bunless burger – it comes most definitely inside a bun, but despite initial dismay it turns out that the kitchen made it gluten-free, so full marks for effort.
