Or compiling videos in a pitiful attempt to rationalise their childishness.
A flicked header from Drissa Diallo, benefiting from Louis Saha's pitiful attempt to mark at Grant's corner, added the third.
Unlike his pitiful attempt to stop the American midfielder's weakly hit long shot in South Africa, Green couldn't be blamed for Dempsey's 33rd-minute goal in Saturday's match.
He is leading a campaign to protest "Harvard's pitiful attempt to avoid the embarrassment of their own students' blatant apathy," as he wrote in an e-mail message.
In a pitiful attempt at Roger Moore-style sophistication, I turned to raise my glass to the man who was noodling away on a grand piano, then realized that he was made of goddam Lego.
Drug decriminalisation is a policy they've quietly backed for a while, but choosing to trumpet it now feels like a pitiful attempt to appeal to young voters – the group most likely to believe drug laws should be liberalised.
It is common enough in midlife to feel newly shadowed by death; perhaps it was no surprise that writing began to seem an ultimately futile exercise, a pitiful attempt to give our leafy lives rocklike weight and meaning.
Hart's admirer in the gay brunch scene crops up later, as a pitiful attempt to show the film's acceptance of gay characters, when Hart offers relationship advice over the phone.
