Some viewed the central banker talking his currency down from elevated heights as a feeble attempt.

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According to USA Today's Claudia Puig, the "obnoxious, over the top and often dull" result constitutes "a feeble attempt to rehash action-hero glories".

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The inclusion of the latter seemed very much like a feeble attempt to justify the former and was, in my opinion, neither necessary nor illuminating.

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When I answer that "I have no idea, " my questioner assumes my answer is a feeble attempt at wit, which it is, but I'm also telling the truth.

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It was a feeble attempt at a cover-up.

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Ms. Hummel is afraid that the Windows technology is a flash in the pan given her recollection of Microsoft's feeble attempt to take on Apple's iPod with its Zune portable digital-music player.

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