Sentence examples for staged attempts from inspiring English sources

It was way funnier than the various staged attempts to inject judicial humor into the show.

It picketed, boycotted and staged attempts to integrate whites-only restaurants.

Most of the "Chihuahua" videos are staged attempts at humor — not that Disney is laughing — and not all of them are negative.

The good-girl songs of the new album and tour are staged attempts to temper all that ambition with humility and empathy.

It seemed like an expertly staged attempt to underscore the strength and intimacy of one of the world's most scrutinized marriages.

The prolonged and violent demonstrations against the Danish cartoons were a staged attempt by Islamists to intimidate their enemies in their own countries and in the West.

And his famous Ode to a Nightingale (1819), which celebrates the "embalmed darkness", was a carefully staged attempt to summon it back.

And in a bizarre – and almost definitely staged – attempt to try to understand what had happened, Winston led us all into a public phone call with somebody, only to then refuse to say who he was talking to, insinuating it was Farage when it was more likely Siri.

Mr. Ashby's wittily deadpan framing supplied much of the humor in Harold's staged suicide attempts and his encounters with a series of computer dates.

The next stage attempts to prove that one can and must recollect Forms, since only with that proof will Socrates have demonstrated the pre-existence of the soul.

The company's keynote at this year's CES show in Las Vegas is a perfect example, which centered on the laughable "Born Mobile" slogan, as introduced by one of the worst on-stage attempts at play-acting in trade show history (Samsung's Galaxy S4 show wasn't at a trade show, so it doesn't technically count).