Sentence examples for weird attempt from inspiring English sources

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

It is actually this weird attempt to sound aware and open together and graceful, which is ridiculous because really?

After that came Dinner Party (1962-63), a weird attempt to present a dinner-table chat show, presided over by the wayward Tory politician Lord Bob Boothbyby.

So his press conference in the Elysée banqueting hall on January 14th turned into a weird attempt to keep the focus on his new policy, ducking the question most people wanted answered.

His descent into a nervy, incapable wreck across the series – "Are you sacking us?" he asks Ashley, in a kind of weird attempt to normalise a boss/worker relationship – has been the balance to Tommy's matter-of-fact evil.

In a weird attempt to calm him down, Kelly says something meaningless.

There are weird attempts at humor, like the compilation of footage of mutilated American soldiers that was called "Jihad Candid Camera," or another one sarcastically titled "The Truth: Americans Don't Die".

This is part of a weird Republican attempt to make fun of Obama for saying that if people kept their tires properly inflated it might save as much oil as we could gain by offshore drilling.

Morgan has a wander down the pitch and fails to make contact with a weird, walking attempted push to leg.

He sort of came to the realization that his weird and awkward attempt to show some sort of chivalry in defending his girlfriend from the car actually just weirded her out.

But my theme is really an important British industry – television – winning success abroad even though it is being undermined by a weird and dogmatic attempt by the government to rein it in at home.