Sentence examples for uneasy attempt from inspiring English sources

I meet him almost a year since that life ended, and his second uneasy attempt at freedom has begun.

But the changing political landscape -- not least the Bush administration's uneasy attempt to stand back from the conflict -- could make one necessary.

At its weakest, it feels like an uneasy attempt to stage an armistice between the opposing forces of text-based and physical theatre.

Congo's government is a fragile creature, an uneasy attempt at power-sharing involving the two main rebel movements of the civil war of 1998-2003 and the regime they rebelled against, plus a few token civilians.

The desolation at the end of a love-story featuring a recovering alcoholic and an abusive older man, or the intense pathos that suffuses a story of a father's uneasy attempt to show support for his stammering daughter who wants to be a stand-up comic - Tomine invests each of these stories with infinite understanding and depth.

After years of uneasy attempts at accommodation, Hindemith and his wife, whose father was Jewish, found themselves included in the Nazis' notorious 1937 exhibition of "degenerate art," and they left Germany.

Among the most autobiographical works by Mr. Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who died earlier this year, this simultaneously wry and plaintive memory play explores a painful passage in the life of a 17-year-old Nebraska boy who is reunited with his estranged father for an uneasy late attempt at father-son bonding.

Friends of Bowie, whose lust for the public eye has faded since a heart scare in 2004, say he's uneasy about attempts to catalogue his life and career.

Coalition president Moaz al-Khatib is known to be uneasy about attempts to form an interim government, fearing this will entrench divisions and make a political settlement less likely.

In the flight corner are angsty existentialists like Mike Carter, whose Uneasy Rider charted his attempt to escape the big 42 on the back of a BMW.

During the Q&A an elderly sceptic quipped: "Some people say they've seen aliens and have even talked to them!" The panel trod an uneasy path as they attempted to accommodate these sorts of jibes while keeping on track.