Sentences with phrase «not slapdash»

Yep, it's a whole lotta block print, but the varying scales and crisp palette keep it feeling serene, not slapdash.

The works themselves are not slapdash cracks but dutifully, even earnestly constructed objects, largely indistinguishable from the classes of works that they mock.

Someone cast her in a real movie, please — not a slapdash, rushed hack job like Scary Movie 2.

«And it's not all slapdash, either.

This isn't a slapdash, self - congratulatory effort.

Not exact matches

As impressive as the back three of Per Mertesacker, Rob Holding and Nacho Monreal was at Wembley, Arsene Wenger will not want to rely on this slapdash trio over a longer period of time.

I take the SAFE act to be equal parts political opportunism, slapdash lawmaking and a genuine desire to get guns away from dangerous people: good gun control laws yes, the SAFE act, not so much.

Hmm, I think the NS article is somewhat slapdash - the Petitions Committee actually published a report on this and identified a few cases that did have an identifiable effect.

You may or may not have noticed, but I have a somewhat slapdash cooking style.

If you're averse to handsewing and if the slip - stitch isn't your best couture move, I refer you to Slapdash's All - Machine Clean - Finish Sleeveless Bodice Lining Tutorial.

Cyrus» self - styled country album might be the most weakly considered event record of the year, with lumpy melodies, slapdash rhythms and lyrics that border on self - parody (and not in the way that Nashville's finest know how to do).

I do wish Mr. Robbins's one - note co-stars had been worthy of his performance, and that some of the melodramatics hadn't been quite so slapdash.

But this isn't so much a racing game as a slapdash splash of smeared color that never quite captures the feeling of hurtling down a track.

Don't get me wrong, though — the developers don't need to reinvent the wheel every time (and more of a good thing is usually a good thing) but there's no excusing the slapdash production values and shortage of good ideas on display here.

The slapdash Blue in the Face doesn't complement its companion piece, the inoffensively contrived Smoke, as much as it mocks its formalism, while Chinese Box irons out the kinks in the earlier Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive to no great end.

Revolt of the Zombies is poor in many respects; much of the acting is third - rate — although Jagger, while not the finished article, displays a pleasing talent — and editing and continuity are particularly slapdash at times.

The mix of boxy hand - drawn animation and slapdash CGI doesn't quite mesh, and the screenplay is another clunker from one of the worst living film writers, John Logan (Bats, Gladiator, The Time Machine, Star Trek: Nemesis).

Four non-anamorphic trailers (including the appetizing teaser that came attached to The Phantom Menace), ten TV spots (separated according to their marketing gist), All Saints» video for their «Cruel Summer» - esque «Pure Shores» (one of their few decent tunes), a storyboard gallery (whose panels are not, disappointingly, accompanied by descriptions, forcing us to fend a context for ourselves), and cast and crew bios are also included in this above par, if slapdash, Special Edition.

Based on a bad - but - not - this - bad Italian film, The Last Kiss distinguishes itself as unusually poor because its metaphors for arrested adolescence range wide and slapdash.

Released somewhat fittingly on 4/20, the high holy day on the calendar for stoners, the latest slapdash effort from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe (Club Dread, Beerfest) isn't aggressively terrible or outrageously offensive.

The film was made in 16 days, and yet it never feels rushed or slapdash, in no small part because it doesn't depict too much more than a month of life for its characters.

When her daughter received an A on a slapdash essay, and defiantly conveyed a guidance counselor's comment that «not everyone is cut out for college,» Brooks — who worked in information technology then — came to the school to talk with the principal.

The key insight is that the Learning Experience is not something beyond our control, that emerges automatically after we hastily put together some training material in a slapdash fashion, but something that can be itself designed.

And yet, utilitarian as it is, and despite the slapdash build quality, it manages to be both aesthetically graceful and mechanically formidable — a fitting artifact of an era when working class didn't mean second class.

It isn't just the have - a-go-Harrys who are slapdash in their submissions; many serious writers are never even considered because of their approach and presentation.

Don't think that because it's free, it can be slapdash.

Considering the slapdash nature of most of Watch Dogs» world building, it's surprising that Ubisoft has put into Chicago so many private life details, most of which you'll just skip on your way to hacking $ 264 from someone's bank account or downloading a song you won't play in a car you won't drive.

While acknowledging that he does not «possess the evidence that gaming does not cause addiction,» Walker lays into the Panorama episode and its host for producing a slapdash expose on gaming addiction, leading viewers to conclusions without providing any real evidence.

When they reference popular memes or video games like Super Smash Bros, it doesn't feel forced or slapdash.

I'm not even sure Blizzard realizes it yet, given how weird and slapdash the BlizzCon announcement was, but if WoW Classic releases in the next couple of years, it'll easily be one of the largest and most successful «new» AAA MMORPGs to come out in quite a while.

Thankfully that slapdash treatment isn't indicative of the game as a whole.

Currently, the list of supported games is fairly substantial, with over 100 titles that have been carefully curated; we didn't find a single slapdash addition that say, forced us to play in portrait mode.

Cohen writes that in Bradford's work «there is the peculiar poetic charm of provisional painting — a sense of blah, of nonchalance, of not quite caring about the slapdash, scruffy, Brooklyn-esque «work in progress» look.

I trained to be an art teacher, so it wasn't all new to me, but I'm very shoddy, very slapdash, and it taught me that it is real work: each painting took nine months, and he was seeking perfection right up to the moment he finished.

What most of us don't know is that, rather than being written by a meticulous, upstanding professional in business attire, the Climate Bible is produced by a slapdash, slovenly teenager who has trouble distinguishing right from wrong.

But drawbacks to traditional legal representation can't plausibly justify using slapdash materials in commoditized contract creation.

A boring, slapdash letter won't help your candidacy, and it could hurt your chances.

Don't wait until you're hit with a layoff to post some slapdash content online.

I'm not the neatest of wrappers at the best of times — finer details aren't my strength — but the pressies have an exceptionally slapdash look to them this year.

«The builders had put herringbone flooring down in a rather slapdash way, and it wasn't aligned properly, was all over the place and made the floor look cheap.