Rather, they appear to demand a relatively straightforward attempt at a political reading of the situation rather than the citing of some supposed mental or cultural condition.

The chapters that follow were our first straightforward attempt to show how apemen might be trained, with patience, to improve their way of life.

Rather, it is a straightforward attempt to assure quality control and accountability.

Primitive catapults were essentially "the product of relatively straightforward attempts to increase the range and penetrating power of missiles by strengthening the bow which propelled them".

By contrast, the pursuit of Britoil is seen as a straightforward attempt to acquire oil assets.

Mr Smith saw the move to ensure the institution's senior management were elected and accountable as a straightforward wrecking attempt.

A pretty straightforward attempt to reach the out-of-pocket swing-state voters whom Biden needs to bring on board.

More straightforward attempts to graft order onto the world since 1945 strike him as inadequate.

But it was still a straightforward attempt to kill me.

Not a torture killing like Gretl's; nothing weird about it; just a straightforward attempt at murder!