Sentences with phrase «on slapdash»

In this exhibition, Wood and Harrison's video works feature brief, humorous conceptual pranks that hinge (pardon the pun) on slapdash props and sets constructed in their studio.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

True, their defensive strategy was a bit slapdash last night but good lord, did they have Bayern worried on more than occasion throughout the game.

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.

Jesse has for two years ranged from daily coverage of politics in the Capitol to the occasional prison break in the North County and back again, covering and collaborating on the six day fall of Sheldon Silver and even swifter fall of Dean G. Skelos, as well as deeper looks at Cuomo's economic policies (casinos and other snazzy schemes) and his sometimes slapdash approach to ethics.

The surprisingly slapdash jury - rigging of Wii U features on other systems is glaring in its inelegance, too.

But that could have also meant that we'd get a slapdash and rushed adaptation of Sestero's book, one of the most fascinating tales of unbridled cinematic creativity ever put on paper.

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).

The slapdash comic flailing of screenwriter and TV scribe - turned - director Ed Decter is only compounded by a script so disconnected you have to wonder if pages were lost on the way to the set.

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.

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).

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

What can be said for certain is that the talented comedian certainly needs to be more picky with his roles going forward, because The Wedding Ringer is a lazy, slapdash comedy that relies on familiar troupes told have been told thousand times before in many a Vince Vaughn film.

In this otherwise insincere, slapdash cheap excuse for Martin to revisit his Parenthood turf with a bunch of troublesome tykes and TV stars - on - hiatus, Hank's buffoonish sincerity is a welcome glint of reality.

Rear - channel activity is much more fevered if no less utilitarian; they could've really capitalized on those flying - disc weapons, which have the misfortune to arrive in the third act, when the mix itself starts to seem a little slapdash.

Shot on the relatively new Arri Alexa, the same digital camera that was used for Melancholia and Drive, Jack and Jill looks at least as crisp as any promos the main character might have made himself, if such praise can be lavished upon such a slapdash production, much of which appears to have used the first take every time.

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.

The picture got a enough mileage out of Muniz's amusing believability as a secret agent on training wheels and out of its tongue - in - cheek twists (to keep his parents in the dark, the CIA did his homework and housework while he was on assignment) to balance out a lot of slapdash screenwriting — so all in all, it squeaked by as good family fun.

It delves into the depths of pop culture, and its dialogue sounds like the slapdash, cognizant cadence known as Whedon - speak, but juiced up on testosterone.

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.

Say what you will about the so - called mumblecore school of filmmaking — with its slapdash aesthetic and endless self - regarding conversations — but at least those movies seem to have something on their minds, beyond creating a mood.

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.

It lacked the crispness of the contemporary Honda Civic Type R's gear shift and throttle response but at the time it was so much more exciting than a Seat Leon Cupra R. On the other hand, with slapdash alignment and cheap tyres, it was a dog.

In retrospect there have been too many occasions when the depths of our fridge decayed into a wasteland of half - used onions, liquefied cucumbers, petrified lemons and colourful penicillin colonies hiding half - eaten cheeses — all orphan ingredients from slapdash meals dreamed up on the fly.

However, most laser manufacturers only provide slapdash training on the day the system is purchased.

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.

Streum On have a lot to prove, especially after Full Control's recent Space Hulk adaptation proved to be more than a little slapdash.

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.

Animal Super Squad is a new vehicle platformer taking cues from the absurd physics and big ramps of the Trials series, swapping helmeted rider with reckless animals in slapdash machines on wheels.

Following on Patrick Cariou & friend's own slapdash effort, the Appeals court produced a high - quality, carefully cross-referenced catalogue of each use of Cariou's YES RASTA images in Prince's Canal Zone paintings.

On the surface, Lizzie Fitch's inkjet - printed two - dimensional constructions would seem to be about as far from Six's slapdash works as possible, but they both combine disparate elements in ways that reward extended viewing.

After looking at the subject's face for a few moments, the artist cranks out a slapdash depiction of their genitals, all in less than 30 seconds, a comic turn on the work's «intimate» billing.

Josh Smith (closes on Saturday) This installment of a two - gallery exhibition features the artist as sardonic conceptual - installation - painter with 19 slapdash paintings that upend both the modernist monochrome as devotedly hand - wrought fetish and its post-modern successor, usually made from found material.

I, as a none scientist, have a «gut» feeling (based, however, on a lot of reading and even more «thinking») that much of this is slapdash and bogus.

The lazy, slapdash Judge Natalia Combs Greene, in her appalling July 19th ruling, relied on it heavily:

For example, both Lawrence Solomon and Ross McKitrick repeated the canard that the slapdash Wegman panel on the «hockey stick» controversy had some official connection to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, implying equivalence to the official NAS / NRC comprehensive report and panel led by Gerald North.

The three lady judges - by comparison with that slapdash idiot Combs Greene in the trial court - were on top of the case, and they had some sharp exchanges.