But there was no way, and his elaborate attempt got him nowhere.

"You mean this was all an elaborate attempt to hire me?"

Their probable reaction would be to discard his story as an elaborate attempt at muddling up the case.

At the moment, his computer-designed world represents one of the most elaborate attempts to use virtual reality to create art.

She coughed and died; he made some elaborate "attempts" to restart her, then held up his hands.

And a simple retention of the traditional view seems to me a far preferable attitude to any elaborate attempt at rationalizing it.

But equally they had agreed that they would make no elaborate attempts to hide it.

As in the world of fine art, the most elaborate attempts to misrepresent cars occur where the profit potential is greatest.

They called it an elaborate attempt to get around both the letter and spirit of the Supreme Court decision and the consent decree.

"It's not an elaborate attempt to say anything other than what it says."