Sentences with phrase «own slapdash»

What he did: Willan Johnson spent 20 years frustrated by the slapdash, small - time contractors maintaining his pool near Los Angeles.

Instead, we got the slapdash additional Ministerial Panel hearings.

Until those issues are resolved within each person — religiously or psychologically or existentially — the social and political issues will never be resolved, except in a slapdash way.4

«And it's not all slapdash, either.

He knew from experience that judges come in all shapes and sizes — competent and incompetent, conscientious and slapdash, honorable and corrupt.

@Kate: 3 points for «slapdash».

There are other paths to success for the rotation — a Garrett Richards All - Star season, an Andrew Heaney breakout, for example — but Wilson's salary is one of the reasons the Angels have to use a slapdash platoon in left and an uninspiring incumbent player at second.

The style is considered much smoother and less frenetic than the more exciting but occasionally slapdash methods of Killy.

At the moment it's a slapdash mess with no one having any responsibility whatsoever.

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.

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.

An ill - advised shot feint and an equally slapdash finish saw the ball dribble clear of the near post, when better options were available at the back post.

The Commons» culture, media and sport committee has published a report laying, in no uncertain terms, into large swathes of the press for their slapdash approach.

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.

And this creates a huge question - mark about the sustainability of his slapdash approach to the job.

That might seem like some fairly slapdash writing, you might claim.

It's telling how slapdash these operations are, once you get past the purposefully daunting gravitas of names like «permanent secretary».

«Slapdash, last - minute vanity plays masquerading as political campaigns rarely work.

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.

But some politicians — such as former education secretary Nicky Morgan — appear to take a more slapdash approach.

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.

He also said it was «slapdash and careless» of David Cameron to rush into constitutional issues such as English votes for English laws without considering them properly.

The six medium - size orange shrimp were just a touch chewy after their slapdash, 10 - minute water bath, but they looked and smelled like what you get at the supermarket.

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.

The slapdash inventor had kept no signed and dated notes to prove when he had sketched the gadget's structure or built a prototype.

In its rush to grow, cancer forms tangles of blood vessels, but those slapdash vessels are leaky.

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

It was a total slapdash affair — give them a few rough guidelines and hope for the best.

I've been desperate to make this dress since first spotting the pattern in the Stash of the Slapdash Sewist and I was lucky to find for it the finest needlecord (21 wale).

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.

Having for some months now been an avid reader of the Slapdash Sewist, I now know that there is another way.

To line it, I had valuable help from Slapdash's tutorial.

Husband Mike and I have been using the slapdash method for eons: We take a board, a thick nail, and a hammer.

Slapdash spelling makes your message look hurried and thoughtless, whilst carefully constructed sentences demonstrate that you have devoted your time to communicating with other users.

Atomica's slapdash script is a hasty aggregation of screenwriting and science fiction clichés, barely feature - length and possibly written over a single weekend.

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

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

The whole experience just screams of wasted potential, offering up a slapdash game in place of something more refined and better developed.

This belated second sequel to The Three Musketeers is a rather slapdash, uneven patchwork of weak writing and sloppily directed set pieces that fails to recreate the magic of the previous films.

As luck would have it, that summer I was a bus driver / tour guide at the slapdash studio tour.

But at the same time, they made the team interesting and interweaving, instead of just adding characters slapdash like they did in the Batman franchise.

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.

The show plays like a slapdash effort, conceived less by creative spark than as the product of focus - group testing, with a dash of nostalgia thrown in.

I'll refer you to Exhibit A, his slapdash home video level adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Child of God.

Sputtering along from one half - cocked gag line and self - satisfied in - joke to the next, Ocean's Thirteen is as slapdash and slipshod a three - quel as any in this summer's box - office sweepstakes.

Lighting, camerawork, and editing are all a slapdash mess, one that further hinders the actors trying their best to get through this failed hookup of a comedy.

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).

As with the wicked witch, there's something inherently untrustworthy, even slapdash, about this whole affair.

These movies have become one big joke, with hokey acting, slapdash visuals and Kindergarten dialogue.

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.