Sentence examples for silly attempts from inspiring English sources

Despite the Obama campaign's silly attempts to deny it, Romney goes into the debates as a big underdog.

This is just another of today's often glib and frankly silly attempts to sex up art history.

Just the picture of him smiling as he makes a few silly attempts to pat the calf's head, or watching him pedal his bike with such determination, reminds me again of my gratitude to Katie Beckett, her mother, and Ronald Reagan: because of them, we have not missed these moments.

Ryan is also a kindred spirit in his silly attempts to run from his own reality.

There is no excuse for making these silly attempts at recycling in this post-Charlie-Kaufman world.

There was no exploring the town or anything one likes to do on a trip of free will--it was 100percentt experimental performance, bleak modern composition, and silly attempts to reenact the Fluxus Manifesto.

Bow down to the Deadpool marketing team, for they've followed up their recent rom-com stunt with yet another brazenly silly attempt to fool and confuse the unaware.

5 Nick De Luca:   Got sin-binned for a very silly attempt to kick the ball from Gori's hands and then came back on, only to see Hamilton to depart.

Vincent Gigante, who once wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in pajamas and bathrobe in what the government said was a silly attempt to show that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial for his mob-related crimes, lost his final appeal yesterday when the United States Supreme Court refused to hear his case.

Yet as the demo of Real Racing 3 at the event showed, innovation is as likely to come from canny use of Apple's software as from its hardware: the idea of "time-shifted multiplayer" sounded like a silly attempt to rebrand ghost racing, before EA's Rob Murray explained that players will be able to bump their friends' cars and affect their times – even if that friend raced the day before.

None was more offensive than Trump's proposal to temporarily halt Muslims from entering the U.S. in a downright silly attempt to curb terrorist attacks.