Meanings of forlorn attempt in inglês

She conquered the rest, and made a forlorn attempt to change the subject.

She had made a forlorn attempt again, that morning, to dissuade him from the park adventure.

Why did he tell lies and make a forlorn attempt to flee, drunk and without luggage?

Mr Gleeson told the hearing Nelligan made a " forlorn attempt" to hide the plunger under his clothes.

In a forlorn attempt to demonstrate a joy he cannot have felt, he threw his cap into the air.

Sound-shadows rattled the trees moments later, in a forlorn attempt to catch up to the engines which had produced them.

His lone attempt as a playwright, Buchanan Dying (1974), came out of his forlorn attempt to resurrect one of the most unsuccessful of 19th-century politicians.

When will economists give up their forlorn attempts to measure the incommensurable?

A long silence followed, punctuated only by Monday's forlorn attempts to whistle on the step outside.

He could not ride, though he made one or two forlorn attempts to break his neck.

After all the American financier made several forlorn attempts to recruit Moyes before finally getting his man.