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One is an experiment I did for BMW, an attempt to make a car.
As punishment for his Godson’s foolish attempt to master mortality, Death whittled his candle down to its wick.
And of course, these measures, things like school closures, and other things that just attempt to reduce the social mixing of a population.
And this is a Guinness World Record attempt.
So we ask people, how much should Grace be blamed in this case, which we call a failed attempt to harm?
And in fact, they say she deserves more blame in this case, the failed attempt to harm, than in another case, which we call an accident.
But in the case of a failed attempt to harm, where Grace thought that it was poison, although it was really sugar, people now say it was more okay, she deserves less blame for putting the powder in the coffee.
In my first attempt to hold my breath, I couldn't even last a minute.
But this is that attempt.
Two days before my big breath-hold attempt, for the record, the producers of my television special thought that just watching somebody holding their breath, and almost drowning, is too boring for television.
My first attempt on pure O2, I was able to go up to 15 minutes.
I'm just going to very briefly show you three games that I've made that are an attempt to give people the means to create epic wins in their own futures.
The first attempt didn't go so well.
So, the Scribbler is an attempt to create a generative tool.
Six years ago, after 20 years in graphic design and typography, I changed the way I was working and the way most graphic designers work to pursue a more personal approach to my work, with only the humble attempt to simply make a living doing something that I loved.
But as many people have said, there's a large attempt to suppress what's going on.
They don't even attempt to corral the oil where it is most concentrated.
This is a visualization of the political spectrum, an attempt for me to try and understand how it works and how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture, into families, into individuals, into their beliefs and back around again in a cycle.
And then I'm going to attempt onscreen animation here.
Let us attempt to read out memories from connectomes.
I propose that we attempt to find a connectome of a frozen brain.
So in an attempt to shift the misguided perceptions that many have about the place of my birth, I use design as a means to tell stories, stories about joy, stories about triumph, stories about perseverance all throughout the African diaspora.
Later on, in a similar attempt to untie her mother she wanders down stairs and starts searching in a box of scrap-booking stuff for some scissors, eventually she gets a knife.
Just another weak attempt from Nickelodean Films to hitch on to the animation explosion.
It does not make the slightest attempt at subtlety, much less intelligence.
The few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute Boy Scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes.
The rest of the film is simply the usual "Santa Anna is a tyrant" storyline and with a weak attempt to show the Mexican perspective with a fictional Hispanic character displaying stereotypical Latin machismo.
Even the attempt of building artistic scenes is not always achieved: the so call erotic "women on a horse" scene is ridiculous, not erotic and useless.
The film is unusual, but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience, it becomes alienating and off-putting (with a role for Amanda Plummer that is downright humiliating).
A pity cos it was a brave attempt and although Clint Eastwood is famous for saying that'll be OK for a scene, he puts the work in before he shoots and he is Clint Eastwood.
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