Sentences with phrase «scattershot at»

However, app support for the feature is scattershot at best.

The discussions may have been no more than a desperate BlackBerry trying to gauge interest from Mark Zuckerberg's empire; Facebook's hardware efforts have been scattershot at best, making this seem like an awfully strange fit.

Die - hard «Cloverfield» conspiracy theorists can distract themselves by figuring out this story's relationship with the other two films, even if the connections feel vague and scattershot at best.

This was Padilha's big opportunity to compensate for the much - derided PG - 13 rating, but between the annoying shaky cam and his tendency to cut away from the action too early, many of the set pieces are scattershot at best.

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I would expect the «scattershot» nature of the tariffs will be corrected over time, so I don't think this is a big deal at all.

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

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.

For Wu, a first - time candidate at 42, the decision to run for a low - profile, relatively powerless office is at once unlikely and perfectly in keeping with a scattershot resume that has made him an offbeat quasi-celebrity in the buttoned - up world of the legal academy.

Through its energy and inherent beauty, Brimstone & Glory hits concurrent notes of peril and bliss, but even at a scant 67 minutes it can seem a bit aimless and scattershot.

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

Although this may contain the best performance of Hayek's career, and an act of violence in the third act will be deliciously appealing to the basest instincts of every angry liberal at this particular post-inauguration moment, it's still a flawed work, too broad and scattershot to skewer its deserving targets with the precision necessary for the task.

The plot by the writer (who also wrote the similarly scattershot The Judge) makes no sense, particularly in its final third, where it drops not one, not two, but three insanely illogical twists — one of which had the audience I saw the film with guffawing at the outrageousness of it all.

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.

This Mad Men — like ambition — to explore the professional conflicts of a group of highly creative people, the sweeping changes in society they're reflecting and responding to, and the conflicted genius suffering from imposter syndrome at its center — might have been better fit for the length of a series, and indeed series like Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here and HBO's classic The Larry Sanders Show convey the combination of internal competitiveness and group cohesion that powers comedy scenes like the Lampooners» more effectively than AFASG's scattershot approach.

It's a scattershot blast aimed at teens with an extremely short attention span and a girl - fighting fixation.

Along with the scattershot nature of the film, one has to wonder exactly who this film was aimed at.

Until recently, my sales plan involved putting up books and using a scattershot combination of whatever seemed trendy at the time: Facebook ads, Kindle Nation Daily book blasts, building up a Twitter fanbase, etc..

(There is also a relatively scattershot, seemingly sour - grapes exhibition of his work at his former representative, the Pace Gallery, in its West 22nd Street space, but never mind).

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.

Though many online interest groups have organized around specific causes, that energy is scattershot, as likely to be (mis) directed at other users as it is to be harnessed for a single collective purpose.

Without an expert to guide you, they might seem scattershot and at times useless, but if nothing else, they remind you about what careers are out there and how they might fit you.