Sentence examples for vague attempts from inspiring English sources

Mr. Glasner even made a few vague attempts at asking Ms. Yudkoff out, but she was always busy.

And even the best-paid highly skilled employees would have trouble drawing a consistent plan of action out of Facebook's vague attempts at drawing up community standards.

Despite some vague attempts at balance, "Algeria 1830-1962" is mostly a tribute to a Gallic army putting natives in their place.

The vague attempts at humour and coolness came from puffa-style jackets and hats in wool check, though it's hard to imagine what man would fork out Givenchy-sized prices for a puffa.

We may be in the realm of interdimensional cosmic fuckery here, but the film's vague attempts at some kind of basis in scientific reality tend to fly out the airlock pretty spectacularly in moments like this.

After about an hour, which included some vague attempts on behalf of Pegida supporters to break out of their playpen, things died down and people started to head home.

Romney supporters have made a vague attempt to lump the hair-cutting incident in with Mitt's long history of pranksterism.

I've recently taken to skimming G2 in newsagents to see if I really do need to buy, in a vague attempt to save money.

In a vague attempt to turn myself into a green human being, I read Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Diaries (Fourth Estate) every week.

He was making a vague attempt to keep tabs on the 39 people in his care but had lost them in the crowd.

True, he announced some measures to boost growth: some cumbersome labour laws are to be cut away; "credit easing", a so-far vague attempt to give business lending a nudge, is on the cards, too.