Sentences with phrase «crazy quilt»

Rather than being an ordered argument against visionary thinking in the church, it is a kind of crazy quilt of my posts and cartoons related to the topic.

From an elaborate crazy quilt to a simple grid, a quilt always adds a touch of charm.

I love it for the fascinating, crazy quilt of a family it has stitched together for me.

In short, a picture of the hearsay rule with its exceptions would resemble an old - fashioned crazy quilt made of patches cut from a group of paintings by cubists, futurists and surrealists.

Indeed, the typically American crazy quilt of private philanthropy, political involvement, religious commitment, and civic association seems to be sewn again and again.

A lot of crazy quilts use dark colors.

«Unclassifiable» is the best way to describe the genre - hopping whatsits of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who followed their cabin - in - the - woods crazy quilt Resolution with Spring, a swoony walk - and - talk romance that just happened to double as a gooey creature feature.

Jockum Nordström's work, according to New York Times critic Roberta Smith, «is a more or less truculent crazy quilt of images, styles and events.

In his solo exhibition at Iceberg Projects, Bernard Williams» «Blanket Paintings» evoke the historical traditions of many cross-cultural examples of blankets, ranging from woven Afghan war rugs and Navajo Chiefs» blankets, to the Gee's Bend crazy quilts.

Wall text introduces the show as (deep breath) «poly - chronological crazy quilts of assembled cultural data that have the potential to scramble set notions of historical hierarchies and frustrate rigid regimes of taste.»

After July 1, OGS will maintain one centralized waiting list based on a worker's overall length of state service, eliminating what officials called an «inconsistent and unfair» crazy quilt of agency policies.

Practiced consistently and with integrity, the master role of prophetic guide gives a chance to assert control over the crazy quilt of incessant demands placed on the pastoral leader in a typical twelve - to thirteen - hour day.

As an interfaith household with a great love for all the traditions in our crazy quilt, we celebrate many holidays.

Most of you know I wrote a memoir called Everything You Ever Wanted, about how the crazy quilt of my family came to be, and what these early years have been like for us.

This easy baby quilt pattern uses the strip quilting method for creating a «crazy quilt» of random patchwork.

Instead, its wildly varying terrain is a crazy quilt of geological patterns and textures — copied, pasted and tweaked from other planets and moons.

«It's a crazy quilt,» says Ross McKinney, chief science officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, D.C.

Gear Patrol named this stretch of land one of its best cycling routes in America, calling it «a crazy quilt of fields, small towns, coves, and sinuous tributary rivers.»

Some are recurrently woven into the film's crazy quilt, others feature as stand - alone major panels; a few more are mere fragments, adding to the sense of a chaotic exquisite - corpse story war held together by the thinnest, most tongue - in - cheek pretexts.

While half the film is a riff on Lifeboat, with a crazy quilt of personality types at each others» throats in the confined space, the climax stops the bus for a tense standoff between the passengers and the convicts, resulting in some surprisingly violent episodes and a turnabout for many of the stock character types.

There are three billboards near her home in Ebbing, Missouri that are crazy quilts of tattered leftover, shredded images from layers of advertisements brightly urging drivers to buy Huggies or visit the Ozarks.

The movie becomes a crazy quilt of competing stories, none of them properly developed.

There's always something uniquely fun about revisiting the crazy quilt of»80s music - kids drink beer and talk about Lou Reed while listening to a Foreigner cover band.

That's a shame, since the same basic dysfunctions that ail general education afflict special education too: middling (or worse) teacher quality; an inclination to throw «more people» at any problem; a reluctance to look at cost - effectiveness; a crazy quilt of governance and decision - making authorities; a tendency to add rather than replace or redirect; and a full - on fear of results - based accountability.

And they would leave in place the crazy quilt of state tests.

District managers, however, are faced with a crazy quilt of funding streams for purposes that match the district's strategic priorities only by happenstance, if at all.

Rather than increasing equity in the system, their proposal will intensify the social reproduction of inequality, resulting in a crazier quilt with gaping holes.

As the authors argue, the incrementally developed «crazy quilt» (8) of policy and regulations working in schools and districts can constrain the system's ability to be flexible and responsive in the way the free market might allow.

When my daughter was 10 years old, she left the comfort of her elementary school for the unfamiliar territory of the middle / high school building — a crazy quilt of pieces from the 1910s, 1930s, 1960s and 1970s.

As Margaret Spellings so clearly stated in her interview, «There is this crazy quilt of accountability systems across the country, with lots of local latitude to maneuver the fine print.

She has created a weird menagerie and connected them all in a crazy quilt design.

These events are all cutesy corporate names, three - minute «pitches,» a crazy quilt of PowerPoints, and, in this case, an onstage grilling by four «judges» followed by audience members texting their choice for winner of the day's Innovation Award.

the idea is to provide a manageable app for sampling and reading — which isn't a bad one given today's crazy quilt of digital platforms.

If we were rebuilding all of our aging infrastructure, that would be one thing, but the crazy quilt of tax breaks and subsidies affects behavior, but does not compound and aid growth.

Either you can drive it, or, you can hire someone to drive it, or, you can let multiple parties take a «piece of the action» and end up with a crazy quilt.

Embellished with paint, ribbons, and beads, the crazy quilts on view from the late 1880s have a delightfully arbitrary quality that belies the skillful planning that went into making them.

And indeed all these artists offer a kind of crazy quilt, and Chelsea has plenty more to spare.

Julian Lethbridge recalls Abstract Expressionism as a kind of crazy quilt.

For all its ups and downs, it literally does have a crazy quilt, a kind of origami or Cubist Persian rug.

But they cast a wide cultural net woven of found imagery, wabi sabi (the beauty of things worn by being handled, things overlooked or thrown away), crazy quilts, poetry, art history, feminist art, eroticism, intimacy, violence, maps, colonialism, and the continuing war on black and brown bodies.

In her video, the 34 - year - old Parisian artist presents footage of these artifacts — and of herself rummaging through the archives — in windows that pop up on the screen (as on a computer desktop) while a voiceover raps out a crazy quilt of creation myths over a drumbeat.

Dodge pieces together discordant elements as if he were stitching together a crazy quilt.

The works date from 1733 to 1952 and, like the country itself, form a crazy quilt of texture and idiosyncrasy.

«You'll see countless fiber art techniques in their crazy quilted installation, which is a perfect visual mission statement for our gallery.»

The painting is simultaneously a fantastical terrain, a crazy quilt made of beaded swatches, and an abstract painting.

I make crazy quilts, which don't follow a pattern and tend to be heavily embroidered.