Sentences with phrase «from haphazard»

Using bare concrete or lurid painted bronze, Trayte's installations echo familiar sites of consumption, from haphazard market - stalls to carefully orchestrated supermarket displays and elaborate dinner tables.

... build a good reputation slowly based on dedication and consistent quality, not on volume, advertising, or from haphazard breeding to make or break records or to satisfy their ego.

However, by the start of the 20th century, the breed suffered from haphazard breeding and lack of attention to type.

My promotional efforts and expertise run from haphazard to non-existent, so I'm afraid I can't really offer any insightful comments.

Everything here — from the haphazard time - travel conceit to the broad plotting to characters whose emotional centers are entirely reliant on our nostalgia for them — is so imprecise that the stakes are virtually nonexistent.

Plastics, so cheaply and easily produced, offered salvation from the haphazard and uneven distribution of natural resources that had made some nations wealthy, left others impoverished, and triggered countless devastating wars.

Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun on Monday disclosed that the state was losing between N3 billion and N5 billion as revenue monthly from haphazard toll collection...

«This year I've gone from a haphazard collection of boxes on the floor of the «good room» to a gorgeous new oak cabinet made by a local craftsman,» says the senior winemaker for Wynns Coonawarra Estate.

To make matters more complicated, friendships and family ties rarely function with predictable tidiness; rather, they inject an irrationality into life which flows from the haphazard nature of emotional commitments.

It is worth noting, however, that the «shock» generated by these exposées comes from the haphazard manner in which those who were stung displayed their off - the - record views.

Not exact matches

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

But it is not enough to use it, as it is used in our day, as a rallying cry in battles which, strictly speaking, have nothing much to do with religion, or to put it on a pedestal to be admired, or in a spirit of haphazard eclecticism to pick and choose from the shari`a only the material which pleases us most.

the layering was somewhat haphazard, as you might imagine from helpers age 6 to 18 months, but the result was spectacular.

It all remains reactive haphazard stuff from our friend Wenger and his lot.

Today, Oneida County Executive responded to «haphazard tweets» from Paul Krugman in regards to Utica, Oneida County and the Economy in an attached letter.

With that incident calling the reliability of the National Transitional Council (NTC) into question and continued criticism of its haphazard military strategy, many observers are starting to ask searching questions of the body ready to take over from Gaddafi.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staffers employed an informal and sometimes haphazard system for exchanging and storing sensitive information and were at times either unaware or unconcerned with State Department policy, documents from an FBI investigation into her private email server system show.

He says the roads also give insights into the history of a place: «You can see an incredible range, from the highly regular roads around Kansas City, for instance, to the haphazard, like immediately outside the Bay Area on the West Coast,» which reflects how the network was built up over time.

«The existing haphazard, fragmented approach from EU countries, characterised by communication breakdowns and insufficient resources, will not suffice if we are to protect our ecosystems against these invaders.

The myth of the scientific method as a series of neat and tidy steps from hypothesis and prediction to experiment and conclusion is busted once you go into a lab and observe the more haphazard and messy realities of how researchers feel their way toward discovery.

Vague historical records suggest that a typically haphazard treasure hunt at the site followed, from which no findings or documentation survived.

Born on May 23, 1707, the Swede turned natural history from a hobby into a science with his masterful systemization and documentation of what had until then been haphazard classification of plants, animals and fungi.

Similarly, attempting to counterattack when under fire from the military is haphazard at best.

The tone is all over the map, switching from fantastical one moment to naturalistic the next... It all gives God Help the Girl a disconnected, haphazard feel.

Bright and genial, it lacks the cruel edge of many of their comedies (in particular their most recent, 2008's Burn After Reading), and its moderately haphazard, episodic plotting is a far cry from the clockwork precision typical of their films.

Coming from Nima Nourizadeh, the director of Project X, it's no surprise that American Ultra is such a haphazard experience, where the most amusing thought is trying to figure out what was going through the mind of someone who puts off the kind of highbrow intellectual persona that Eisenberg does while he was sitting on the set of this stoner action comedy, whose existence would be quickly forgotten if people were even aware that it was released in the first place.

«Despite strong performances from leads Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, «The Dark Tower» is too meager to feel grandiose, and too haphazard to feel grounded,» Collider's Matt Goldberg wrote.

But that doesn't stop him and his pudgy, vulgar, slacker - stoner - clown buddy Matt (Vince Vieluf) from recruiting a friend with a van (Joey Kern) and a nerdy pal (Adam Brody) with a college fund to burn in haphazard pursuit of an unlikely dream.

The campy and sun bleached aesthetic works well - it is about competitive ski jumping after all - but the camera work is haphazard, leaping from one questionable choice to the next, stealing tricks and tones of other filmmakers without any of the finesse.

And, indeed, most years the festival world's supreme accolade is bestowed upon a worthy recipient — this in spite of the haphazard nature of the decision - making process, with the competition's fate held in the hands of a nine - person jury whose members are plucked from various branches of the cinema tree.

Disc two offers a wealth of supplemental material: a making - of documentary, footage from the premieres in Cannes and India; the film's (many) trailers and showreel; and a haphazard, completely context - free and unsubtitled assemblage of scenes from other films starring Khan, Rai and Dixit.

Because of the film's haphazard and confusing flashback structure, however, we already know that eight years later she is alive, and being kept in a locked basement by a creepy perv called Mika with a creepy perv's tache (Kevin Durand, unsurprisingly) who only ever seems to listen to one piece of music in his designer home: the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's «The Magic Flute.»

These two men enable the worst in each other, but also find some fellowship and redemption in the relationship, as they make their way from Dubuque, Iowa, to New Orleans on a misguided, haphazard road trip.

In this lame, haphazard teen comedy, the dark - eyed sexpot from «Bring It On» is the only sure thing.

Leave it to the curmudgeonly «Thunderbolt» Ross (William Hurt from the mostly buried Edward Norton Incredible Hulk continuity), now the Secretary of State, to recall the haphazard collateral damage that those «saving the world» have left in their wake.

Because of the film's haphazard and confusing flashback structure, however, we already know that eight years later she is alive, and being kept in a locked basement by a creepy perv called Mika (Kevin Durand, unsurprisingly), with a creepy perv «stache, who only ever seems to listen to one piece of music in his designer home: the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's «The Magic Flute.»

Over twenty people now work on the Zelda Conversion Project, coordinating their efforts using a Discord channel and a haphazard spreadsheet outlining tasks that range from rigging character models to designing new armor and a different title screen.

Dirk the Daring rides for the sixty seventh time - gracing the Xbox Live Arcade with his haphazard quest to save the princess Daphne from the wealth hoarding evil dragon Singe.

Accompanied by costume mistress / Jimmy's girlfriend, Faye (Liv Tyler), their haphazard success takes them from local gigs to TV specials and national tours.

The Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers have provided welcome, albeit temporary, relief from the most onerous provisions of the law but, as Carter notes, have led to a «haphazard patchwork of state progress» and have neutralized the administration's urgency for a longer - term, more comprehensive solution.

Apple has focused much of his work on equity in education and said he supports Common Core as an improvement over No Child Left Behind, the George W. Bush - era education standards initiative that he calls a formula for failure, but criticizes its rushed development with limited input from educators and haphazard implementation.

Childhood is supposed to be a radiant springtime but mine seems to have been always autumn, the gales seething in the big beeches behind this old gate - lodge, as they're doing right now, and the rooks above them wheeling haphazard, like scraps of char from a bonfire, and a custard - coloured gleam having its last go low down in the western sky.

BEST ENCOUNTER AT A WRITING CONFERENCE: A slightly wild - eyed writer sat across from me with a haphazard stack of papers and proceeded to pitch me the proposal he had stayed up all night working on at Kinko's after his own printer had run out of ink.

In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius shows how reformers across the nation transformed haphazard, locally run systems of charity and welfare — mostly church handouts and town asylums — into government - run systems of welfare that aspired to make America a place where social and moral purity could reign, free from the «hereditary defectives» of the past.

Probably as haphazard as it sounds above: I'm happy to roam across the internet (& from Twitter) each day, wherever the links take me... Obviously, over time, I return to certain sites over & over again — mostly I'd say they're quite obvious sites, to all concerned — these I'll bookmark (mentally, or in my browser) and return to them regularly.

Like every other team game, playing with friends will always give you a strong advantage of a team of haphazard strangers, but playing alone doesn't detract from the fun.

And then there is the way even the most haphazard level looks so professionally made; background objects will spring up as you change the foreground to make it all look seamless, and every object fits together flawlessly from a visual perspective no matter what you do.

In the end, these haphazard interventions serve better to direct rather than divert our attention from the naughty bits.

These canvases are «elaborate, abstract fields of color and movement, with compositions ranging from organized, quilt - like patterns to completely haphazard bands of weaving color».

From far away, each composition looks like a haphazard blob.