Sentence examples for pale attempt from inspiring English sources

Management is a pale attempt to hang on to the excitement".

Critic Todd McCarthy said it "feels like a pale attempt to recapture a portion of the public that made Midnight in Paris by far Allen's biggest hit ever".

The show, however, is no pale British attempt to ape an American success.

Guardian editorial What we said: "The show... is no pale British attempt to ape an American success.

The problem is that the narrative conjuring tricks that Mason attempts pale, in both scale and complexity, beside the ones that Homer mastered three millennia ago.

We adore this color on Kate (much better than her recent, rather unfortunate attempt at pale yellow) but are ambivalent about the necklace.

He worked on it for eight years, from 1943 to 1951, yet even that effort would pale in comparison with his vain attempts to have it produced during his lifetime.

"Hillary Clinton's comments today accusing Mr Trump of treason are not only beyond the pale, it's also an attempt to distract from her horrible record on Isis," said a campaign spokesman.

David Foster Wallace's Pale King was the best attempt yet, but the great novel of office work remains to be written.

One of the new works in the exhibition, East Anglia, attempts, with its pale sun dawning over an unidentified flat landscape, to capture a whole region in one image.

It all pales next to the 1997 attempt to stir investors' hopes.