Sentence examples for tedious attempt from inspiring English sources
I remembered Jack's boring daddy issues from the first season; back then they struck me as a spectacularly tedious attempt to give our clean-cut hero some depth.
But even she can't redeem Heyward's tedious attempts to represent black speech.
And, terminally unpleasant or not, Eminem is occasionally astonishing, able to upend expectations and redeem his many tedious attempts to épater all of us.
December 31 , 2013Nick Hider (@class_bore) Pompous Antony Jenkins incredibly tedious in attempt to re-brand corrupt Barclays bankers as great leaders.
But Mr. Driver could not redeem Wagner's Fantasy in F sharp minor, a teenage composer's tedious, meandering attempt to evoke the rarefied world of Beethoven's late sonatas.
I use it with tedious regularity in an attempt to make him understand that some actions have negative outcomes and that those outcomes can't be magically whooshed away with a wave of the hand.
After a few hours of chain-smoking, tedious small talk and attempts at cajoling the men to release me, a woman from Donetsk's media center called.
Being baffled, and also being very tired of being baffled, they have come to believe that there is no way out -- except war -- which would remove all the bewildering paradoxes of their tedious and now misguided attempts to construct peace.
Abject after a manic bout of illness, Bernard describes Frances's refusal to marry as "an attempt to escape the tedious daily struggle to love another human being".
This beat-the-clock set piece, tricked out with dazzling computerized bells and whistles, is one of the movie's desperate attempts to transform the tedious task of computer hacking into a sexy activity.
