Sentence examples for token attempt from inspiring English sources

Police and security guards made only a token attempt at bundling out demonstrators.

There isn't even a token attempt to recap on the plot or explain which elf is which.

When Sophie signals her availability to the passive-aggressive Robert, he seizes his opportunity and makes only a token attempt to conceal his infidelity.

A running subplot that "Scary Movie 3" makes only a token attempt to integrate into the story involves a homicidal videotape that sentences everyone who watches it to death in seven days.

The last few Emmy have at least made a token attempt to be a bit more subversive, mock the industry they are honouring, and attempt to engage a younger audience.

But one particular source for "Vendetta" was not so much imitated as pillaged: the puritanical tone of the English dictatorship, the omnipresent surveillance, the Big Brother figure screaming at everyone — all this has been lifted from George Orwell's "1984," with no more than a token attempt at disguise.

But the movie makes only token attempts to acknowledge campus ferment.

The Pirates made 11 of 32 3-point attempts while making token attempts to get the ball in close.

During their affair, conducted under the nose of Catherine, the lovers make only token attempts to conceal their passion.

Even though the milestone passed with little more than token attempts inside China to observe it, the authorities have yet to ease their grip.

Among McCartney biographers, Vincent Benitez writes that the songs are "uneven in quality", and Howard Sounes describes the album as "a curate's egg, good in parts, with token attempts at sounding contemporary".