Sentence examples for sad effort from inspiring English sources

"This lawsuit is a fake... a sad effort to get a lottery hit – nothing more".

The notion of a pure musical experience is, for Sterne and his cohorts, the last sad effort of a nineteenth-century cult of attention that placed the solitary alienated (and almost always male) listener in a temple of silence, the concert hall.

Hopefully, enough people have watched enough Nazivision to see that this sad, belligerent effort to protect Obama's credibility strains the bounds of credulity.

It's so sad the effort is wasted on someone whose life really doesn't need any more exploration, at least not in the superficial manner with which this movie treats it.

We also included two "alert" data products (INPE-DETER and Imazon-SAD) from efforts to monitor deforestation in near-real time based on moderate resolution (250 m) satellite data [59, 60].

We also included two "alert" data products (INPE-DETER and Imazon-SAD) from efforts to monitor deforestation in near-real time based on moderate resolution (250 m) satellite data [ 59, 60].

She lifted her head with tremendous effort, sad-eyed and gaunt, like Fantine, in "Les Misérables".

If you try to pretend to be sad, it's an effort; if you are sad, it comes out in your acting well.

"Anomalisa" may not be as smotheringly sad as his previous effort, "Synecdoche, New York," but what is?

People can't sleep, they're irritable, feeling that everything's an effort and sad".

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are studying liberals' and conservatives' reactions to happy or pleasant photographs and scary or sad ones in an effort to learn more about the cognitive underpinnings of political preference.