Sentence examples for shameless bid from inspiring English sources

Angelina Jolie, in a shameless bid for Oscar-night prestige, plays a single mother whose young son mysteriously disappears.

Yet Carson somehow stands a bit removed from his own material, holding back from his own shameless bid for laughs.

(Before making a shameless bid for the poster with: "It will rock your world!") And what's this?

The whole thing seems like a shameless bid to win votes from eastern Europe where Von Teese is popular.

It was a shameless bid for sympathy and a standing ovation – and not the work of someone who cared as little as she tended to affect.

Indeed, so many farmers' daughters have left North Dakota that the tourism bureau published a beefcake calendar of bachelor farmers in a shameless bid to lure more women and replenish the dwindling population.

He has since devoted two special sessions to it in obeisance to Mr. DeLay's shameless bidding.

So we have to make clear the real reason for taking this stance; shameless positioning for a bid to replace David Cameron at the head of the Tory party.

Leading writer Paul Abbott, the creator of State of Play and Shameless, is to take full control of his production company, Tightrope Pictures, in a bid to boost its production of world-class drama, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

All this time, Santorum has been posing as a one-man reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, Pope Pius X, and Dr. Strangelove, and it turns out he's actually a shameless pinko who's been doing the bidding of liberal groups like Planned Parenthood.

ITV has a potential £1bn to spend on acquisitions and had been linked to a bid for All3Media, maker of shows including ITV's Midsomer Murders and Channel 4 dramas Skins and Shameless, but the prospect of a bid receded last month.