Sentences with phrase «rather haphazard»

You can see changes being made, but they feel arbitrary and rather haphazard.

Actually, I did not hear about any of the three before climategate exploded and, in fact, seeing that the McIntyre blog was down for days because of an overflow of visitors (and looking at the rather haphazard way it is organised) I'm not at all convinced about the «powerful interests promoting them.»

I realise that my description of this strange phenomenon was rather haphazard, but this sort of stellar puzzle design isn't really something that can be talked about easily or even deliberately done by the developers — it's simply there or it isn't.

The graphics are a rather haphazard mix of hand drawn characters, animated pictures of real life objects such as trees, and some parallax scrolling to give the game some depth.

That's rather haphazard criteria.

«Technology is often driven by the discovery of new materials, but the process of discovering these materials has always been rather haphazard,» Tropsha said.

«It's probably going to be done in this rather haphazard way,» said Kremer.

The teaching of non-fiction texts, especially at Key Stage 3 (age 11 -14), is often a rather haphazard affair and so, if Catholic teachers are not careful, Catholic perspectives on the world can easily be written out of the curriculum here too.

I kind of grinned at the sneaky goodness of God, the kind that tiptoes up behind you, because without a lot of fanfare, because in a rather haphazard and organic way, I have found my tribe.

Not exact matches

We will make these into a stronger ritual, rather than the haphazard efforts we have currently.

To make matters more complicated, friendships and family ties rarely function with predictable tidiness; rather, they inject an irrationality into life which flows from the haphazard nature of emotional commitments.

In order for a decision to be free of the past but still be based on reasons rather than being merely haphazard, not all of the reasons for the decision can precede the decision in time.

That was because we had to travel to Milton Keynes, one of the few new cities in England (built in the «50s) and thus is a grid rather that the more haphazard design of other British cities.

Everything is disorganized and haphazard, as though the act of competing were the reward rather than who won.

Georgia May Jagger: In comparison to some other looks of the evening, this Matty Bovan piece felt rather underdressed — and a bit haphazard with the gigantic earrings.

Some well - stacked edgy jewelry can make all the difference in making your outfit look intentional and awesome rather than haphazard.

Though it shares the critique of wealthy privilege and racial stereotyping that undergirded Landis's groundbreaker, this is a broader, duller, and more haphazard movie, one in which the gags — some funny, some not — drive the story, rather than the other way around.

Race to the Top's sprawling, encyclopedic applications — with their haphazard appendices and Maya Angelou poetry — were treated as a point of pride, rather than evidence of consultants run amok.

Bar modeling is a powerful pictorial technique that results in one answer, deduced by using mathematical principles that students have learned rather than by employing the haphazard trial - and - error method of Guess and Check.

Rather pleasingly, the haphazard wiring in my brain has taken random sources of diversion and arrived at what is surely one the most pressing questions of any petrolhead's life.

So far as shooters go, this reboot was the best I played in 2016: firmly old school of no - reload simplicity, but designed for speed, for efficient slaughter rather than the chunkier, more haphazard battles of the original.

In the end, these haphazard interventions serve better to direct rather than divert our attention from the naughty bits.

Whereas Louis and Noland worked with an icy control, often using colored washes rather than viscous paint to avoid even the texture of paint strokes, Thomas allows a playful humanity to appear through the rigor, pushing against it in creative and unexpected ways, but never breaking through or turning haphazard.

So often it seems that people call for more centralized control and direction in solving problems, rather than leaving it up to the haphazard «scramble» which so often happens in the world.

As a result, many people (and this includes many in the public sector) would rather solve their own legal problems by using Google in a haphazard and dangerous way.

All too often we launch our careers simply by chance rather than by deliberate direction; and the direction we head after that looks very haphazard.