But our amateurish efforts failed, and Annalee suffered on for another 48 hours.

The director calls it "a bit of a raw and amateurish effort, but there are bits and pieces of it I quite like."

Readers who plow through this amateurish effort will guess the ending long before any of the characters has a clue.

Assault and attempted robbery, very amateurish effort, it seems.

An amateurish effort at best, this film is unintentionally funny at times and lacks much fizz.

That threat hampered the Buchanan camp's amateurish effort to find sufficient petition carriers and signers.

The critic from the Australian Woman's Weekly called it "one of the more amateurish local efforts" with "little entertainment value.

And if there is anything to all of this, it may all prove to have been a fairly amateurish effort to establish a beachhead.

Sebell bent over to examine the pamphlet: obviously a very amateurish effort.

This is looking like a really amateurish effort now....