Sentence examples for tiresome attempt from inspiring English sources
The three characters who want to end it all may have met online, but once the play has brought them together in the flesh it largely abandons its professed theme in favour of a clumsy, tiresome attempt to merge melancholy and madcap comedy.
The Ushpiz film, a tiresome attempt to unify a plethora of disjointed material around no theme in particular, repeats the leitmotif of Hannah Arendt thinking with a cigarette in her hand (Arendt was apparently a giant in smoking as well as philosophy, a fact that is also underscored in Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt in which Barbara Sukowa playing Arendt is constantly puffing away).
The test was performed using a chair (height 45 cm) with a mechanical contact in the seat, enabling automatic recording of the number of posture transitions and the number of cycles completed, for example, 21.2 cycles in 30 s. 19 As the test was somewhat tiresome each participant made only a single attempt.
In the book, they are redolent of cocktails and boredom, filled with attempts to provide fleeting distractions from tiresome conversations among uninteresting people.
Their attempt to turn themselves into characters is tiresome.
But praising Kemp's thought leadership because it represents the only Republican attempt to talk about cities (beyond the Heritage Foundation's tiresome attacks on the welfare state) is unjustified.
There are obvious and woefully inept attempts at literary flair that make the novel a tiresome read.
An ill-planned attempt to start a new life in the South Pacific is irrelevant and tiresome.
