Sentences with phrase «scattershot in»

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

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.

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.

Next Movie is lazy, lacks ambition, and is consummately scattershot in its thinking — just like your stereotypical stoner.

Critics Consensus: While Lord of War is an intelligent examination of the gun trade, it is too scattershot in its plotting to connect.

It is more scattershot in its approach and less emotional than its high - profile predecessor but Rumble still has great stories to tell and causes to champion making it irresistible for popular music lovers.

Critic Consensus: While Lord of War is an intelligent examination of the gun trade, it is too scattershot in its plotting to connect.

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.

Not exact matches

Rice believes that this issue of singular focus versus a more scattershot approach is moot for the most exceptional people in the still small constellation of successful inventrepreneurs.

A strategy that is laser - focused on locking up features that others will need to compete is both more effective in boosting the bottom line, and less costly, than a scattershot approach to patenting.

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?

COMPANIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TAKING ACTION TO THE NEXT LEVEL There's a lot of talk in the C suite about how to reduce waste, boost energy efficiency and embrace renewables, but progress so far has been scattershot.

Bell's books and videos tend to have a fragmented style, posing big theological questions and raising objections to traditional Christian beliefs in a scattershot way without ever properly engaging with them.

Is it better to do a scattershot with the odd cartoon in a widely read publication, or have people join you in your journey via your blog?

Granted, Sam Ficken's leg helped the Nittany Lions in the bowl win, but he was scattershot, nearly making the same percentage of long kicks as short kicks.

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.

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.

Ross, who wasn't involved in the work, believes the scattershot silencing may prove «a source of considerable genetic variation.»

As stated in the perspective, though various researchers have attempted to study the risks of nanoparticles, it is a «scattershot approach,» that is far from comprehensive.

Such a scattershot application of a method to various clinical problems suggests that the genome approach is a technique in search of a question.

Karen O's lyrics may be a bit scattershot, but they show cleverness, and her voice soars and hisses in all the right places.

In none of those areas does this film compare favorably to Pixar (and the scattershot storytelling in particular reveals the lack of laborious self - inspection), but that doesn't seem to be too pressing a concern to DreamWorks as they continue to churn out profitable and crowd - pleasing movies that are enjoyed the world oveIn none of those areas does this film compare favorably to Pixar (and the scattershot storytelling in particular reveals the lack of laborious self - inspection), but that doesn't seem to be too pressing a concern to DreamWorks as they continue to churn out profitable and crowd - pleasing movies that are enjoyed the world ovein particular reveals the lack of laborious self - inspection), but that doesn't seem to be too pressing a concern to DreamWorks as they continue to churn out profitable and crowd - pleasing movies that are enjoyed the world over.

Alas, for all its stellar talent, Free Fire is a scattershot exercise in genre homage that ultimately misses the target.

Django Unchained, Tarantino's deliriously kicky and shameless (and also overly long and scattershot) racial - exploitation epic, is set in the slave days, and among other things, it's a low - down orgy of flamboyant cruelty and violence: whippings, a scene in which a man gets torn apart by dogs, plus the most promiscuous use of the N - word ever heard in a mainstream movie.

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.

Like most third world or disadvantaged artists, Piňero acquisitioned the art of the ruling class: Of the three poems recited in their entirety over the course of Leon Ichaso's scattershot biopic Piňero, the first of them hijacks Percy Shelley's 1819 «Ode to the West Wind» (in its shift from Shelley's «withered leaves to quicken a new birth» to Piňero's «candy wrappers in the wind») and the last of them Longfellow's «My Lost Youth.»

A scattershot narrative is saved by the hilarious supporting cast in the action comedy Gringo, in theaters this weekend.

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.

In Yoga Hosers, Smith engages in the most self - indulged, restraint - free and scattershot mentality he can musteIn Yoga Hosers, Smith engages in the most self - indulged, restraint - free and scattershot mentality he can mustein the most self - indulged, restraint - free and scattershot mentality he can muster.

Back in 2016 I was not entirely taken with Deadpool's scattershot and juvenile approach to humour, or it's fairly weak story sense, but Deadpool 2 is an improvement in every regard.

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

It's a shame then, that with all these fine creators, this scattershot comedy just doesn't gel in the way that it should.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

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 scattershoIn 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 scattershoin 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.

by Walter Chaw The sort of movie where Klansman dressed in the Teletubby rainbow are brutally beaten in a Southern Methodist church when they submit themselves to the mercy of the Lord, Red Grant's Family Reunion: The Movie is a scattershot Def Comedy Jam routine filmed with a noxious, hostile artlessness made all the more impotent by its desire to be whimsical.

It's a scattershot approach that leans heavily toward nonsensical antics and a healthy disinterest in reality.

Her immense talent in these films makes it all the more puzzling that the three films she's co-written and produced, including the new comedy Life of the Party, are so scattershot.

While those new additions come in the form of talented veteran stars like Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Gallagher, the film's decision to shift the focus away from the relationship of its original three women to their tattered bonds with their even worse mothers results in a disappointingly uneven and scattershot comedy.

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.

I realize that asking for restraint in a movie like this is kind of clueless, too, but great gobs of this movie about the famously obtuse newscaster are scattershot and dim and obvious.

Costner just doesn't have the spark of erudition necessary to convince as a serious individual with letters after his name (not unless those letters are LHP), and his performance in Dragonfly is unconvincing, joyless, and scattershot.

Monster presents something of a (poetically) flaccid, scattershot exclamation point for the calendar year 2003 that saw its best and worst films stricken by ennui, personal confusion, and a collective bedrock hopelessly in flux.

The other three, a frantically scattershot Winslet and Foster especially, feel very much like they're acting to the cheap seats in the back of a theatre on Broadway.

Every one of his comedies is merely a set - up for veteran character comedians to use as a palette for continuous ad - libbing, which results in scattershot jokes that feel like the dregs relegated to deleted scenes in most finely - honed comedies.

It's a scattershot approach, and this also extends to the film's casting policy, which seems to involve filling the thing with enough cameos to paper over the gaps in the script.

Not even the impersonal craft and kinky personal inflections of director Barbet Schroeder can bring harmony to the scattershot strategies, which suggest several assembly - line teams of filmmakers working in isolation on separate scenes.

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.

Will Ferrell (Old School, Elf) delivers again, with a little help from his friends, in this scattershot comedy that just manages to hit just enough hilarious moments to look past the fact that there just isn't a well - developed, cohesive movie here.

Swallowing his Mexican accent so that he sounds like Pee - Wee Herman's masculine bellhop from Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, the overexposed, generally unpleasant Gael García Bernal plays Elvis — no, not that Elvis (the pic's cheeky title and scattershot allusions notwithstanding), but a sailor who takes his leave of the Navy and tracks down his deadbeat dad, David (William Hurt, who could only be Bernal's biological father in the same metaverse where Marc Anthony sired Dakota Fanning), now a pastor living in Corpus Christi.

There's enough basic structure in place for The Slammin» Salmon to be amusing, but too large a portion of its jokes and banter feel like first - draft placeholder material, and its consistently scattershot staging and execution too often undercuts whatever comedic momentum it starts to accrue.