But his book, too, feels pokey and padded — 75 pages of good material attempting to fill a much larger sack.
The churches are material attempts, however imperfect, to bear witness to the hope that human beings can enrich one another rather than be doomed to exist as isolated and fragmented individuals.
But the films it will end up wrestling with in the rankings – Godzilla ($525m) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 ($618.8m) – feel a bit low-grade competition-wise for a blockbuster based on original material attempting to break into event-movie orbit.
If there is dullness at the heart of the film, that may be due less to the director (though he should have cut it by a good ten minutes) than to the source material; attempts to link Georgiana's story with a broken royal marriage of more recent vintage are tendentious at best.
The microcracking sequence (radial, median, lateral, and ring-like) arising at the glass surface under sharp contact loading and the extent to which these cracks develop is intimately related to the way the material attempts to relax the corresponding stress field.
Journalists should give more coverage to the candidates who make substantive, material attempts to grapple with the issues that their reporting revealed.
These main accumulations in sites where foreign material attempts host invasion suggest that MCs are one of the first cell populations to initiate defense mechanisms [ 98].
As this gives rise to the limitation of the absorption efficiency of a conventional material, attempts to surpass this mass density limit have focused on acoustic metamaterials.
The development of the saline lip implant serves as an example of how alloplastic materials attempt to mimic more the viscoelastic properties of natural soft tissue without the need for repeated treatments as with temporary fillers.
Those included hacking political entities and advisers and disseminating hacked materials, attempting to "test the vulnerabilities of 21 state electoral systems," and using social media platforms to engage in information campaigns, Warner said.
