Example collocations logo

Attempt in sentence

3333 examples of Attempt in a sentence

MGM's attempt at a Hitchcockian thriller is doomed from the start by a turgid, muddled, ludicrous script, and the idiotic casting of Hepburn as a jeopardized woman fearing for her life (who could ever imagine Hepburn afraid of anything?) Louis B. Mayer forgot to tell Vincent Minnelli he was directing a thriller, not a musical.
Sheriff Tom Palmer(Guttenberg)and Anna Montgormery attempt to transform a group of useless,inept kids into a winning soccer team.Lacking originality and direction from the offset it's quite a struggle to maintain any form of interest in this film.
An apparent attempt at a coming of age flick, "Ripe" is an almost complete loser which wanders aimlessly as the players drift in and out of character finally ending clumsily with nary a shred of credibility to be found anywhere.
Then sat down and watched this failed attempt to make a movie.
If you want to watch a sad, lonely and unfunny hack comedian attempt to entertain the masses with a half hour of pale and tired social ramblings that your mildly retarded cousin commented on at the Thanksgiving dinner table then this might be the show for you.
Cloying and sappy, the only redeeming quality of the film was its use of puppets in an attempt (albeit a failed one) to structure some kind of narrative.
A totally pathetic attempt at movie about sacrifices of Australian Soldiers during the New Guinea Campaign.
An earlier attempt, VILLA RIDES! (1968) with Yul Brynner in the role and co-starring Robert Mitchcum, dealt with these events more soberly and on a grander scale.
Basically a forgettable, poor attempt at recreating a beloved era of the past.
The 1972 version does attempt to address this style and what the book is - A love story with war looming in the background.
This movie did attempt to capture the naive idealism that many young teenaged girls have for fun, friendship, escape, danger, sex, maturity, etc.
First he makes a pathetic attempt with a stick then pulls a knife, the knife reflects some lazer beam within a gold snakes mouth and lights the druid on fire instantaneously.
Chiklis makes a commendable attempt at looking the part, and he's funny in an early scene trying to escape from the morgue.
As a huge fan of the wonderful genre that is zombie movies I found this to quite possibly be the worst attempt I have ever been privy too.
Obviously Demi's attempt to get some "arty" cred, the movie is a shambles because of her lousy acting ability.
The story is an attempt at a twilight zone style feel but fails badly.
This movie is an abortive, stillborn attempt to stitch together several bad movies and make some sort of extra-bad movie.
Following that the only other in depth involvement comes from the best scenes in the movie centered around Lorenzo's invitation to supper with Ines' family, and her fathers all out attempt to force Lorenzo into signing a bogus confession and getting his daughter back.
The next part of the film is concerned with the vacuous, fatuous and asinine behaviour of her friends and colleagues, and the various miseries caused by their libidinous behaviour, with a vague attempt at humor.
This movie was a dismal attempt at recreating a crucial time in English history.
In one of them is a sort of Operatic bordello story where a rejected architect attempts to manipulate a group of people into throes of happiness--only his attempt misses it's only real target, the woman that he pines after.
I can't believe in this day and age that Hallmark and ABC (Disney) would attempt to show such garbage as this.
I sincerely hope no one got paid, I mean if getting paid were to be considered here, they should be paid to never attempt another film project again, everyone that was involved, never, never again.
It's basically a poor attempt at film-making.
Another failed attempt to retreat has Stone causing a frightened victim to drive his car into a tree, his body engulfed in flames as he fails to escape without harm.
This good-guy-vs-the-evil-tyrant story, set in 19th century Russia, may have been an attempt to extend Steve Reeves' career beyond those "Hercules" movies.
The homo-esque relationship between Ethan and Al Bert is hinted at but never explored whilst the attempt at sexual tension betwen fran and rick is so crude as to be laughable.
This is a very sophomoric episode, not worthy of the standards of Rod Serling, but rather an inept attempt at some sort of ironic black comedy.
"Glen or Glenda" was Edward D. Wood Jr's first attempt at directing a feature film.
In their attempt to get away, the robbers leave a bloody trail of death in their wake as they hatch a plan to ransom the boy.
BackNext