brave attempt

In return, she got a brave attempt at a smile.

It had been a brave attempt and was recognised as such.

He evidently picked an unfortunate moment for his brave attempt.

A brave attempt, but ruined by the fact that neither of the elements are really up to much.

It was a brave attempt, a genuinely innovative reaction to a difficult situation.

He rolled his shoulders, a brave attempt to appear indifferent.

She added in a brave attempt at levity: "Where do we go from here?"

The Commission has made a brave attempt to put something on paper, limited in scope though it is, to help the consumer.

The men made a brave attempt to dress ranks.

The Commission is making a brave attempt here.

Still, it's pleasing to see such a brave attempts at sarcasm in a public forum.

I had left my home at 6 a.m. in a brave attempt to be here.

"Come, please share my food," she offered, still shaking, but making a brave attempt to be the good housewife.

The critic added, "The director has done a brave attempt to entertain the mass.

"It's outside of the press room, that name," replied Williams, in a brave attempt to soldier on regardless.

It is a brave attempt to justify the unjustifiable.

Then there is this brave attempt to remove trade barriers between these two major trading blocs.

It was a brave attempt to maintain standards.

Such was Britain's brave attempt to evade the dreaded axiom.

But this brave attempt to 'face facts' contains problems.

A brave attempt, but spoiled by poor execution.

Among other things, the story is about the deliberate destruction of a people's past and their brave attempt to preserve it in story.

What brave attempts for falling Troy he made!

The following is a brave attempt at a solution, but it failed to liquify:

She made a brave attempt to smile.