Sentence examples for strange attempt from inspiring English sources

Is this a strange attempt at gender equity?

Inside, you'll hear some strange attempt to package slick Nashville pop with bad-boy Southern rock.

You'll eventually find it on YouTube where people will immediately realize it's some sort of strange attempt at astroturfing and someone will be fired for failing to realize the model at the end of this video is holding the damn phone upside down.

It was either a truly ballsy bit of vaguebooking, or a strange attempt at black humour.

It was either a truly ballsy bit of vaguebooking, or a strange attempt at black humor.

The Nuers respond by trying to latch onto our tiny three-wheeled vehicles in a strange attempt to mime jumping aboard.

"I've seen some very strange attempts," Mr. Rosenblum said, with sympathy.

On the upper floors of the bustle, the architects could not hide behind flashy signs, and their solution for a façade yielded one of the strangest attempts at decorating a box that you are ever likely to see: plain, double-hung windows set into yellow, orange, and copper-colored metal panels in large, geometric shapes at slightly tilted angles.

Most of Toklas's recipes were and remain too elaborate or too strange to attempt.

Most of Toklas's recipes were and remain too elaborate or too strange to attempt (I did make - loving its perversity - her Gigot de la Clinique, which involved taking a large hypodermic needle and injecting a leg of lamb twice daily for a week with orange juice as it sat in the obligatory marinade of wine and herbs).

So it is likewise strange to attempt to put in context the fact that 2010's Encyclopaedia Britannica will be the last one printed.