Sentences with phrase «more scattershot»

Peaking somewhere between A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time, the sense of scale and exploration that was once a signature of Zelda games has become much more scattershot.

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.

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.

Ten Years Later, with its adults now playing adults, is less emotionally rooted and its parody more scattershot.

It is more scattershot in its approach and less emotional than its high - profile predecessor but Rumble still has great stories to tell and causes to champion making it irresistible for popular music lovers.

Taken together, these examples show how the drug - discovery process is often more scattershot than premeditated.

Rice believes that this issue of singular focus versus a more scattershot approach is moot for the most exceptional people in the still small constellation of successful inventrepreneurs.

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So far, Canada has taken a scattershot approach to building charging infrastructure and deploying more EVs, one led primarily by provinces.

A strategy that is laser - focused on locking up features that others will need to compete is both more effective in boosting the bottom line, and less costly, than a scattershot approach to patenting.

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?

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.

Although this natural gene drive is unpredictable and scattershot, Burt showed that certain tricks of molecular biology could achieve the same results: causing a gene to be inherited by many more organisms through many generations than standard genetics and natural selection allow.

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.

The Coens use both the music and the gorgeous atmosphere (lots of yellow - green fields and dusty townships) to establish thematic consistency, which unifies the movie far more than its scattershot story.

With a considerably scattershot plot, one which has a somewhat episode design, Nerdland lacks some of the narrative momentum that comes from more cohesive stories.

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.

by Walter Chaw The sort of movie where Klansman dressed in the Teletubby rainbow are brutally beaten in a Southern Methodist church when they submit themselves to the mercy of the Lord, Red Grant's Family Reunion: The Movie is a scattershot Def Comedy Jam routine filmed with a noxious, hostile artlessness made all the more impotent by its desire to be whimsical.

Her immense talent in these films makes it all the more puzzling that the three films she's co-written and produced, including the new comedy Life of the Party, are so scattershot.

The genre tropes Pineapple Express skewers are utterly hysterical and perfectly handled, but there's so much dull, scattershot stuff to wade through between them that it becomes more of a chore than a joy to watch Rogen, Franco, Gary Cole, Bill Hader et al. having fun.

Also, Phillips» timing and focus during the more significant comic set pieces (the car crash, a chase across the border of Mexico, and the one - sided fight with the veteran) is scattershot.

Laura Poitras» documentary following Wikileaks founder Julian Assange suffers from a scattershot focus, unable to coalesce into anything more than an interesting collection of hard - to - get footage.

Biting off more than it can chew, it all seems too scattershot, too meandering, too center-less.

There are several areas where Humans Must Answer deviates from the expected horizontal shmup script, but they feel scattershot in nature - exploratory doodles waiting to be refined into something more deep and detailed.

It's not that things have come easily to the famously prolific and scattershot actor, director, author, student, teacher, Oscar co-host, and now four - time Saturday Night Live host — it wouldn't be the worst thing if more famous actors put their talents into film adaptations of their favorite books.

This Mad Men — like ambition — to explore the professional conflicts of a group of highly creative people, the sweeping changes in society they're reflecting and responding to, and the conflicted genius suffering from imposter syndrome at its center — might have been better fit for the length of a series, and indeed series like Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here and HBO's classic The Larry Sanders Show convey the combination of internal competitiveness and group cohesion that powers comedy scenes like the Lampooners» more effectively than AFASG's scattershot approach.

Whereas Deadpool was haywire and undisciplined in every way, giving it the scattershot inauthenticity of a comedy sketch, Deadpool 2 feels like a real movie, creating a more suitable canvas for convention breaking and subversion.

Other small presses are scattershot, with some books breaking the top 20k and others never selling more than a few copies.

The discussions may have been no more than a desperate BlackBerry trying to gauge interest from Mark Zuckerberg's empire; Facebook's hardware efforts have been scattershot at best, making this seem like an awfully strange fit.

The first mature figurative works encountered in the exhibition are drawings hung across one side of a corridor dividing the rooms holding Graham's early, scattershot experiments from a long, grand gallery displaying the more consistent and polished later paintings.

Indeed — that's what I describe in my piece; by giving the more extreme elements of his party free reign, Boehner allowed them to produce something that was so scattershot and contentious he couldn't even get his own caucus to pass it.

So use your time more wisely conducting research on jobs and employers and target a select group with a detailed job - search strategy rather wasting your time and energy on a scattershot approach.

Use your time more wisely conducting research on jobs and employers and target a select group with a detailed job - search strategy rather wasting your time and energy on a scattershot approach.

Niche marketing requires more market research on your part, but it eliminates the scattershot aspect of geographic prospecting.