Sentences with phrase «on scattershot»

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.

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.

Steven Wilson says that early on scattershot expansion — building a charter school wherever a group of local citizens wanted one — weakened EMOs because corporate personnel were always «shuttling to far - flung schools.»

It's wish fulfillment for pre teen boys and a little on the scattershot side, but it's certainly got a charm.

Critic Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

Critics Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

Not exact matches

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.

Both United Telecom / Sprint (Clarity Service, 800-877-4646) and Cable & Wireless (Virtual Network Service, 800-969-9998) have begun marketing packages that bundle every type of calling — outbound, toll - free inbound, international, travel card, fax broadcasting, conferencing — into one companywide network, so long lists of heretofore scattershot items are now billed either on a single comprehensive invoice or by categories elected by the customer.

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.

Just like most films based on improvisational performances, the laughs are scattershot, with some bits working better than the others.

In many ways, «Agent Carter» is the culmination of television's recent attempt to offer an intense if scattershot seminar on modern women's history.

, this film relies on ensemble acting, visual gags, bedpan jokes and pratfalls to achieve its scattershot effect.

Yet, not even Coogan's talent can save such a scattershot approach, as Hamlet 2 isn't close to being fine - tuned enough to keep focused on just what's going on.

On the other hand, I found little fault with Pellington's rich commentary track, a scattershot but ultimately rewarding marriage of thematic survey and production backstory embedded with a pithy defense for the practice of letterboxing.

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

It's a mix of loving homage to rhythm and blues, scattershot comedy, on - the - spot musical, and the most outrageous car chase film ever put to celluloid.

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.

In The Future, writer / director / star Miranda July indulges in the same wayward malaise of her previous film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, but, somewhat ironically, the focus on the uncertainty of «what comes next» makes this one seem a lot less scattershot.

The other three, a frantically scattershot Winslet and Foster especially, feel very much like they're acting to the cheap seats in the back of a theatre on Broadway.

Not even the impersonal craft and kinky personal inflections of director Barbet Schroeder can bring harmony to the scattershot strategies, which suggest several assembly - line teams of filmmakers working in isolation on separate scenes.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer gave the movie a C, writing that «too much of a good thing isn't always a good thing... great gobs of this movie about the famously obtuse newscaster are scattershot and dim and obvious,» while the movie holds a score of 61 out of 100 on review aggregator website Metacritic.

Questionable camera angles exist as well; for every good sequence, an equally scattershot one is found where it can be hard to discern what is going on.

The alliance, which includes AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, Office Max and Yahoo, called the lawsuit «scattershot» in its motion this week since it not only targeted many varied companies but couldn't identify the specific services that were allegedly infringing on its browsing and notification system patents.

We got our hands on two of the new weapons such as: the Scattershot — a gun that resembles the makings of a buckshot - shotgun which fires ricocheting projectiles and the Stick Detonator — a sort of sticky - bomb launcher that can be detonated remotely by the user.

Painted on such unconventional materials as mattress fabric, offset wood and a box from a pharmacy, they make up for their scattershot, unrefined nature with a taste of the shape of things to come: raw visages, scrawled text and an obsession with the organisation of space.

On the evidence of this outing, teasingly dubbed «Escalator to Common Art,» Yetter's practice is a rather scattershot affair, while Hoyt's revolves around an almost Zen - like introspective focus.

Gunter Reski's exhibition at Zwinger Galerie in Berlin, earlier this year, lined the walls with paintings on paper in an array of disparate styles that recalled Majerus's scattershot sampling.

This group writes about groaning in dismay at the unnecessary length of some submissions, at the failure of the attorney to focus on a particular or effective legal argument rather than applying a scattershot approach, and at attorneys who appeal to emotion or personal values at the expense of persuasive and effective legal analysis.

And should you want to find out what I'm up to, you can always follow me on Twitter @fodden and now on the new and eclectic, not to say scattershot, fodden.com.

Rather than a scattershot approach, you can narrow in on what the employee wants.

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