Sentence examples for sordid attempt from inspiring English sources

Scarcely a day goes by without another apology for past failures, another gimmicky new policy, another sordid attempt to grab headlines.

After the public recoiled in distasted and revulsion from the crass, sordid attempt to capitalize on the decade-old tragedy, Rupert Murdoch-owned parent company NewsCorp.

The government continued to defend Heydon, arguing Labor was making "a sordid, squalid attempt" to smear an eminent former high court judge.

The government continued to defend Heydon on Tuesday, arguing Labor was making "a sordid, squalid attempt" to smear a former high court judge.

The court cited "the sordid history of attempts at influencing witnesses and jurors in cases such as these" and jurors' fears of retaliation by convicted defendants or their associates.

As C.I.A. director he embraced covert activities until "the family jewels" — memos revealing the agency's domestic wiretapping and foreign assassination attempts, among other sordid pursuits — were leaked.

The sordid story of President Donald Trump's attempt to smear President Barack Obama as being inattentive to the families of fallen troops took more turns on Wednesday.

ONE of the grandest conceptual follies of the last decade, "Grindhouse" (2007) represents a fanatically detailed attempt to recreate the sordid experience of attending a decaying downtown movie theater in the late 1970s.

It contains descriptions of the sordid experiments he conducted in an attempt to refute the true faith".

In the episode, Mike James Dentonn) marries Susan Terii Hatcher and Angie Bolenn (Drea de Matteo) and her family move onto Wisteria Lane as they attempt to escape their sordid past.

This Casanova depicts a largely unheralded period in the life of the Venetian playboy, with Casanova attempting to put his sordid reputation behind him – although, somewhat inevitably, he finds it a more difficult task than he expected.