Sentences with word «scattershot»

For now, say real estate market observers, energy efficiency information is kind of scattershot in the context of home sales.

Your desk, in other words, can become associated with scattershot attention rather than deep concentration over time.

Adam Sandler's new movie is a pretty good scattershot comedy with counterterrorism as its backdrop.

The domestic scenes, where Cage surrounded by comedians like Paul Scheer and Will Sasso as his mates, and where he gets all Zero Dark Flirty with McLendon - Covey, are far more interesting than the foreign ones, where a riff - laden cameo by Rainn Wilson sums up the more scattershot approach.

Unfortunately, the guns seem ever present, as this mix of cute kids movie and very violent cop thriller doesn't quite mesh, making it too intense for most kids, while too scattershot in its approach for most adults.

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.»

This is far more targeted than the traditional model for drug development, which includes such scattershot methods as screening natural elements like soil from a plateau in Norway and then asking, What might this do?

From the somewhat scattershot narrative — evoking at times a Nicolas Roeg film and Richard Lester's Petulia — we gradually piece together that Alec has twice left Marjorie for Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger), an American coworker, but has recently become obsessed with rejoining his former wife.

Anyone who's used a Samsung smartphone over the past few years will be aware that the company's approach to software design can be a little scattershot at times.

His artistic genius is matched by a total scattershot way of conducting business, life and artistic endeavors.

I Could Never Be Your Woman is a more than a little scattershot in approach, and probably could have been a better film with a more focused storyline and less superfluous side characters given nearly equal screen time to the main players.

While an enjoyable lark filled with a number of giddily enjoyable moments, this adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel is oftentimes a fairly uneven and scattershot affair with extended sequences that frankly do not work particularly well.

It's a cheap looking and scattershot production made by relative newbies in the industry, and the amateurishness shows all too often.

But why rely on such scattershot and unreliable methods of keeping parents informed, when current labeling laws, if left unchanged, would ensure that parents know exactly what kind of flavored milk their children are consuming at school?)

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.

This is a very smart and adept parody, perhaps a bit scattershot in its approach at times, but the willingness to gamble on the material is refreshing for an undertaking of this magnitude.

«Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues» is so scattershot in its stream - of - consciousness sense of mayhem, it makes the original «Anchorman» look like a John le Carre adaptation by comparison.

There are several areas where Humans Must Answer deviates from the expected horizontal shmup script, but they feel scattershot in nature - exploratory doodles waiting to be refined into something more deep and detailed.

The Big Bang is a borderline unintelligible, scattershot attempt at Lynchian neo-noir that takes intellectual and aesthetic risks it has no reasonable hope of pulling off.

Its rambling, scattershot presentation skips over much of what Reinhardt painted and almost everything that he said.

Not being a huge fan of his work so far, I can't say what you may think of it, as to me, it seems just as scattershot as the rest of his work — messy plotting, eccentric characterizations, and amidst it all, unique touches of inspired hilarity.

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.

The climax boasts sustained action and some gratifyingly outrageous moments, including a death by frozen fish that must be seen to be believed, yet it's also scattershot, jumping around randomly for lack of any consistent point - of - view on the chaos that could focus a viewer's experience.

Earning coins in the Run and Gun levels let you equip guns like scattershot, or even opt for extra health.

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.

You might find yourself thinking Tyrel will follow a similar narrative path, but Silva is up to something stranger here, playing with audience expectations in a puzzling, occasionally scattershot way.

Only Bryan Cranston, as Teller's downsized dad, emerges with his dignity fully intact from Get a Job, whose scattershot direction is credited to Dylan Kidd («Roger Dodger»).

That's not to say that the film isn't without merit, but like most scattershot spoofs made nowadays, it only offers a handful of clever moments amid a plethora of awful.

Even coming from a filmmaker who walks a narrative line like a drunk driver tipsily failing to prove his sobriety, this is scattershot stuff — and maybe too much movie for one movie.

Our industry tends to be somewhat scattershot or non-focused, like throwing spaghetti up against the wall and going with what sticks.

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.

Jackson and sophomores Kyle Bolin and Reggie Bonnafon each took snaps early in the season, and each showed scattershot results.

I'm going to venture to say that I'm probably going to be in the minority when it comes to thinking Hot Fuzz is mostly scattershot tedium.

And then there's the startling turn from Krisha Fairchild, Shults's real - life Aunt, who after decades of scattershot film and voice work, delivers a jaw - dropping lead performance full of such raw authenticity you begin to feel you are treading where you don't belong.

I worked for a company that was really scattershot in the way they messaged the mission of the company and the product that they were building.

BoJack Horseman gets the particulars of late»80s sitcoms right and has a few scattershot funny moments but it's mostly not a laugh riot.

The table also shows how clearly Trump's scattershot tariffs are not the solution; just look at Canada's production!

The effort to export the «nano business model» to other parts of New York represents Cuomo's continued remaking of economic development policy which, for the past 30 years, has mostly involved scattershot subsidies to companies.

There are scattershot reports in the medical literature of gentile carriers in Spain, Chile, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Pakistan, India, even Africa, but most of these areas have or used to have Jewish enclaves.

Takes The Strangest Things» dark, occasionally scattershot pop and refines it with sharper songwriting and a slicker approach.

Michael Pearce's Beast has a pleasing earthiness, particularly as it lingers on the dirt underneath the fingernails of Pascal (Johnny Flynn), a handsome young poacher with a mysterious past and fashionably scattershot beard, and on the exquisitely expressive visage of Moll (Jessie Buckley), who often appears to be on the verge of imploding with unexpressed rage.

If that is not terrible enough, the film is shot as a «docudrama» and features some of the most scattershot editing ever to be featured on film; all presented in black and white.

And yet, abetting Raw's piecemeal feel is Jim Williams» scattershot score that is, at times, classical, vaguely industrial, and at one moment, pop.

Joe Carnahan's («The Grey») scattershot script does the film no particular favors to help along this heavy - handed, staid story.