Sentences with phrase «often slapdash»

since i am also a slightly impatient crafter and although i can do a few things quite well, the rest is often slapdash... these are charming, as always an enjoyable post!

It impairs news gathering: Some 30 daily newspapers have been shuttered in the past three years, and virtually all the rest have been rocked by layoffs, as advertisers and readers flee to blogs and other free, Web - based news sources where the reporting is often slapdash or recycled.

Not exact matches

Sound is often too clean and too unevenly applied, emphasizing the extremely varied (often bad) acting styles and slapdash dialogue.

It feels like a slapdash collection of scenes rather than a balloon sent smoothly aloft, with jokes often falling as flat as Cena's buzz cut (a running gag centers on his tough - guy character's propensity for crying, a go - to bit that ages fast).

The Obama administration's implicit support for states enacting Common Core, embedded through both Race to the Top and the No Child waiver gambit, is only the most - recent step in moving away from the patchwork of standards and curricula (often developed by teachers on their own in slapdash fashion) that has dominated American public education for most of the past two centuries.

For all their premeditation, Rothko's approach to the Seagram paintings is often revealed in blunt and even slapdash touches and swipes of his house - painter's brush.

Friends react variously to this sheet taken from its stack, often with confusion at how slapdash it looks taped up there, sometimes making fun of the idea that it's an artwork, with pause for its perceived melancholy.

Over at another section of the fair, artist Ken Kagami, whose twisted and often minimal surrealist drawings and paintings incorporate cartoon characters and pop icons, was drawing slapdash portraits of any interested guest, giving them the drawing to take home.