Sentences with phrase «as scattershot»

Not exact matches

This is far more targeted than the traditional model for drug development, which includes such scattershot methods as screening natural elements like soil from a plateau in Norway and then asking, What might this do?

Granted, Sam Ficken's leg helped the Nittany Lions in the bowl win, but he was scattershot, nearly making the same percentage of long kicks as short kicks.

What's needed, as Paul Tough at the Times and others say, is a less scattershot, more comprehensive program that gets to the root of the problem, focusing on education and mentoring.

As stated in the perspective, though various researchers have attempted to study the risks of nanoparticles, it is a «scattershot approach,» that is far from comprehensive.

In none of those areas does this film compare favorably to Pixar (and the scattershot storytelling in particular reveals the lack of laborious self - inspection), but that doesn't seem to be too pressing a concern to DreamWorks as they continue to churn out profitable and crowd - pleasing movies that are enjoyed the world over.

might be too scattershot to appeal to a much wider audience, but it does cement Parquet Courts» position as one of US indie's more intriguing outliers.

Only Bryan Cranston, as Teller's downsized dad, emerges with his dignity fully intact from Get a Job, whose scattershot direction is credited to Dylan Kidd («Roger Dodger»).

From both the tone and content of the movie itself, we'd guess this could be his swan song: This is a film that gathers all the great — and some of the not - so - great — things about the three previous Craig - as - Bond chapters into one rousing, spectacular, scattershot and somewhat overextended victory lap.

Yet, not even Coogan's talent can save such a scattershot approach, as Hamlet 2 isn't close to being fine - tuned enough to keep focused on just what's going on.

But while the Miike review that doesn't contain the word «gonzo» is a rarity, he is no scattershot shock auteur, rather his films, unpredictable as they may be, are always guided by a clever intelligence.

Screenwriters Jay Longino («Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation») and BenDavid Grabinski («Cost of Living») concoct a terminally scattershot and contrived script that lazily plays into the regurgitation of Chan's signature Asian crime - buster while remarkably making Knoxville even more grating (if that is possible) as the endangered rogue on the run from the baddies that want him eradicated.

He goes as far as integrating snippets of anime, clips stylized like J - POP videos, and an opening credits sequence rife with comic book action bubbles into his scattershot visual melting pot.

Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg team up once again for Ted 2, an outing that is just as bawdy as its hit predecessor, but more scattershot, even by the standards of the mind who brought us Family Guy.

The domestic scenes, where Cage surrounded by comedians like Paul Scheer and Will Sasso as his mates, and where he gets all Zero Dark Flirty with McLendon - Covey, are far more interesting than the foreign ones, where a riff - laden cameo by Rainn Wilson sums up the more scattershot approach.

As all of the most unfairly scathing reviews from Cannes pointed out, Ismael's Ghosts is kind of a mess: a scattershot drama that abandons its compelling central narrative for discursive subplots.

Costner just doesn't have the spark of erudition necessary to convince as a serious individual with letters after his name (not unless those letters are LHP), and his performance in Dragonfly is unconvincing, joyless, and scattershot.

Every one of his comedies is merely a set - up for veteran character comedians to use as a palette for continuous ad - libbing, which results in scattershot jokes that feel like the dregs relegated to deleted scenes in most finely - honed comedies.

Unfortunately, the guns seem ever present, as this mix of cute kids movie and very violent cop thriller doesn't quite mesh, making it too intense for most kids, while too scattershot in its approach for most adults.

Adam Sandler's new movie is a pretty good scattershot comedy with counterterrorism as its backdrop.

Questionable camera angles exist as well; for every good sequence, an equally scattershot one is found where it can be hard to discern what is going on.

Syro feels like the logical culmination of these efforts, as the genre he's bending and perfecting this time is the amorphous one that he instinctively spent his career creating: a bubble - and - spazz hybrid of acid squelches, spongecake melodies, and scattershot rhythms.»

Each was required to offer 90 - minute blocks each of reading and mathematics — as opposed to the scattershot scheduling that some had been using.

institute a regular exercise regimine (as opposed to the current scattershot program!)

Imagine you're watching a flash of white heat as plasma sears out of a Scattershot rifle in the next Halo game.

We got our hands on two of the new weapons such as: the Scattershot — a gun that resembles the makings of a buckshot - shotgun which fires ricocheting projectiles and the Stick Detonator — a sort of sticky - bomb launcher that can be detonated remotely by the user.

The hanging resembles the scattershot arrangement of grade - school art class, as if the artists had to claim a space as quickly as they could.

Painted on such unconventional materials as mattress fabric, offset wood and a box from a pharmacy, they make up for their scattershot, unrefined nature with a taste of the shape of things to come: raw visages, scrawled text and an obsession with the organisation of space.

Your scattershot opinions pretty much guarantee that if one of them ever proves right, you will have long since abandoned it, as you did your intelligence, long ago.

Just as in his approach to becoming a great lawyer, his approach to lawyer marketing is the opposite of short - term, scattershot, and reactive.

As you might expect, the list is scattershot, impossible to summarize and equally difficult to judge in any of its parts without a good understanding of the various contexts.

Though many online interest groups have organized around specific causes, that energy is scattershot, as likely to be (mis) directed at other users as it is to be harnessed for a single collective purpose.