Sentence examples for spirited attempt from inspiring English sources

Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey sounds like a spirited attempt to bore racists to death.

Evan Davis made a spirited attempt to find out - but George Osborne wasn't saying.

In this video segment shot in Minnesota, a spirited attempt to sample lutefisk leads to "a don't-eat-this seizure".

This novel is a spirited attempt to cram her entire cultural and family heritage into a story.

It's a spirited attempt at rehabilitation and Pound asks the reader to judge for themselves if it is successful.

It was an obvious, and mean spirited, attempt to draw a comparison between Mr Browne's appearance and Shakespeare's libellous portrayal of the Yorkist king.

I make a few more spirited attempts at nearly half of Di Bella's machines, but, as always, I feel like I'm humoring the hobby rather than actually enjoying it.

The Netherlands betrayed what talents they have by turning Sunday's final match in Johannesburg into a mean-spirited attempt at intimidation.

The Netherlands betrayed what talents it has by turning Sunday's final match in Johannesburg into a mean-spirited attempt at intimidation.

It is our fervent hope that Californians will reject this mean-spirited attempt to embed second-class treatment of one group of citizens in the State Constitution.

Danny Heitman's recent Times Op-Ed discusses the failed but high-spirited attempts made by Marianne Moore to name a car for Ford in 1955.