Sentence examples for this flimsy attempt from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, this flimsy attempt neither stands nor delivers.

The U.K.'s position is that the Islands will remain British unless their three thousand or so inhabitants express a wish that it be otherwise; the Argentineans, along with Penn, see this as a flimsy attempt at perpetuating a historic theft.

He said that the charges were "fabricated" and had been rejected by Interpol, while Al-Jazeera described it as a "flimsy attempt at character assassination".

Titanfall was a more egregious example of this, with the final game having a handful of multiplayer modes and the flimsiest attempt at a single-player story in recent memory.

He rejected the charges, calling them "a flimsy attempt at character assassination".

What "King Arthur" amounts to is a very labored and very flimsy attempt to charm.

Widely dismissed as an inept propaganda exercise, the site has generated overwhelmingly negative feedback ("Don't need, don't want," runs one pithy post; "A flimsy attempt to make people easier to control", says another).

If Mr. Towns did, then he would not be wasting taxpayers' money on a flimsy attempt at proving my campaign does not have enough signatures to be on the ballot.

So, I tell him that all of that might be true, but to people on the outside looking in, to folks who don't share his strong faith in the church's ability to get it right either, such a theology of social organization looks suspiciously like a dodge -- a flimsy attempt to baptize selfishness.

Is this flimsy nostalgia too?

We sat together in this flimsy, manufactured shelter of what?