Sentences with phrase «crazy quilt of»

The North Carolina decision joins the crazy quilt of state bar rules on metadata.

Or the crazy quilt of often conflicting state bar regulations, some of which allow on - line testimonials or don't require pre-approval of law firm websites while others do.

Real lawyers, and the crazy quilt of politics, principle and precedent — the real practice of law — do the tough stuff.

(I'm not unsympathetic to complaints about our crazy quilt of regulation, but getting rid of restraints on greed doesn't appear to work.)

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

If the minister undertakes to encourage and implement the crazy - quilt variety of ideas in the average congregation of what the church should be doing with its members and resources, he or she soon finds that these ideas are competitive rather than complementary.

The variety of their attitudes, projected on a larger screen with many other sub-cultural points of view added, is the picture of America's crazy - quilt philosophy for understanding and dealing with the problems of alcohol.

Beyond that, in a crazy - quilt pattern, enactments of the practice of worship differ profoundly cross-culturally and within the same cultures because of deeply differing construals of what the Christian thing is all about and, consequently, what the features of an appropriate response to it should be.

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

A lot of crazy quilts use dark colors.

I did find a «crazy quilt» skirt that was made up of remnants of silk from old gowns all stitched together in a falling log pattern.

My husband couldn't believe we'd paid good money for a sofa and within a couple of months his crazy wife was covering it up with a king sized quilt, lol!

At heart, it's a crazy - quilt fantasy dealing with the ideological crisis of American politics, racial divisions, and the continued subservience of the American lower class to the whims of big business.

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.

«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.

Depp's slightly fey performance as the germophobic Wonka is a thing of crazy - quilt beauty, made all the more indelible by his Prince Valiant bob and James Caan bathrobe (he has a nervous giggle, too, reminiscent of Vince Vaughn).

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.

«The crazy - quilt thing completely obfuscates the transparency that No Child Left Behind brought to bear,» said Margaret Spellings, who was education secretary under George W. Bush and now advises the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others on education issues.

The center console itself is made up of three polygons mashed together crazy - quilt - style and at three different altitudes: the iDrive controller sits highest, the shifter sprouts from a slightly lower level, and the parking brake tucks in below both in a hollow in front of the armrest (BMW calls the whole assembly a «deliberately asymmetric centre tunnel»).

- Largehearted Boy» [A] complicated crazy - quilt of a story, House of Rumour is fascinating as much for the way it draws connections (sometimes real, sometimes invented) between disparate subjects like the invention of James Bond and Virginia Woolf's suicide as for the story that Arnott is telling.»

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.

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.

The show also includes a fifteenth - century de Medici Studiolo, a Kienholz installation with junked but working radios, and a room with a crazy - quilt salon hang of more than fifty paintings from the 1980s forward.

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

I am not suggesting that she should have mixed things up more, but I do wish she had found a way to be true to the crazy - quilt multiplicity of the art world that grew below Fourteenth Street in those years and can never really be encapsulated in a term such as Abstract Expressionism.

«The Whitney Museum is New York's go - to institution for the crazy - quilt history of early - and mid-20th-century American art, and its new permanent - collection display, American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe, is one of its best in years.»

Sophie Standing's art combines the detail of pen - and - ink illustrated field guide with the exuberant patterns of a crazy quilt.

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.

Come to think about it, a recent pre-Canada Day MacLean's issue included a piece entitled Unravelling Canada's crazy quilt in which Canadians were polled on a variety of issues.

I love seeing the pillow that was on gram's rocking chair on the guest room bed and her crazy quilt at the end of the bed, made from dresses my sister, gram and I wore.

My favorite picnic basket would have two glasses, a bottle of wine a bar of dark chocolate and a home made crazy quilt to throw on the ground under a tree.