Sentence examples for strange attempts from inspiring English sources

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

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.

It's an obsession that has irreparably altered my perception of both time and space; I can no longer sincerely believe that anyone's best years lurk beyond 30, while every solo flight through London's public transport networks invariably becomes a strange attempt to "see the play" all around me, to jockey for position, evade markers and dance my way through the gaps like a human through ball.

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).