Leslie Denniston's performance is an honorable effort.

With due allowances made for certain failings in the Indiana school's essentially honorable effort, the work still seems highly uneven.

If the Bush name was tarnished by breaking the no-new-taxes pledge in an honorable effort to cut the deficit, W. can fix that.

Although he rebounded to an honorable effort, it was hard to see how he could make it through three more performances, including those tonight and on Tuesday.

The cast put in an honorable effort.

It is an honorable effort and at times, even successful.

More hardened Wagnerians may deem it an honorable effort.

Others found it an honorable effort but lacking in the kind of vitality and musical profile that can create character and propel action.

She said that although the Nottingham proposal was an honorable and serious effort to promote tourism for the city, "it's a storm in a teacup."

This is the principal challenge facing any movie about a writer, and it dooms many honorable efforts to either timidity or ridiculousness.