Sentences with phrase «seem haphazard»

While the works might seem haphazard at first glance, Denise's use of color, texture, and spatial relationships between objects are carefully decided through a process which is playful yet restrained.

The various investments of the Downtown Project may seem haphazard, but one of Hsieh's big ideas is investing in people — whether or not they have expertise in the matter at hand.

Nothing there ever seems haphazard.

Not exact matches

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

This ability makes sense if an animal is social or monogamous, but octopuses are not monogamous, have haphazard sex lives and do not seem to be very social.

The sex life of a seaweed seems at first glance haphazard — sperm and eggs spill into the water, to either fuse or die.

Sleep times can vary wildly in these people and they sadly do not seem to recognize that this haphazard lifestyle is a big part of their problem.

My hair is in the same haphazard bun every day, usually, quick and easy, but I've been feeling sick of it lately (and have also lately realized, thanks to photos, that it is almost always crooked, though in the morning it always seems straight enough, and I admit I am baffled.).

Sometimes that's what happens when getting dressed, haphazard decisions end up working out and intimidating styling seems easy!

Ismail Merchant, though, does not seem too willing to remark on this, only turning to the haphazard comedy he's planning for the rest of the picture.

Perhaps the most recurrent cinematic influence here is that worse - than - you - remember 1984 chestnut «The NeverEnding Story,» whose visually haphazard fantasyland seems trippily of a piece with this one.

While the «Zombies - take - New England» storyline seems fresh in this venue, the haphazard cast of characters surrounding Norman could be underdeveloped and little more than stock supporting characters.

Because of the film's haphazard and confusing flashback structure, however, we already know that eight years later she is alive, and being kept in a locked basement by a creepy perv called Mika with a creepy perv's tache (Kevin Durand, unsurprisingly) who only ever seems to listen to one piece of music in his designer home: the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's «The Magic Flute.»

Because of the film's haphazard and confusing flashback structure, however, we already know that eight years later she is alive, and being kept in a locked basement by a creepy perv called Mika (Kevin Durand, unsurprisingly), with a creepy perv «stache, who only ever seems to listen to one piece of music in his designer home: the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's «The Magic Flute.»

Lunch procedures are revised and changed with no explanation in what seems like a haphazard way throughout the year.

In this case it seems that «except steel wheel» is a bit of a haphazard translation for an alloy wheel.

Childhood is supposed to be a radiant springtime but mine seems to have been always autumn, the gales seething in the big beeches behind this old gate - lodge, as they're doing right now, and the rooks above them wheeling haphazard, like scraps of char from a bonfire, and a custard - coloured gleam having its last go low down in the western sky.

It seems to me that Amazon is saturating the market with haphazard devices, and the Fire Kids Tablet deserves to die.

The money I spent on them, and the habit I adopted of wearing a different one each day, seems to me now a haphazard indulgence, an attempt to prove that I was the kind of girl capable of throwing herself headlong into an affair with her boss — a married man twice her age — and escaping without consequence.

Our 401k's are solidly in target retirement date funds though, and I'm thinking now to just move our entire portfolio to target retirement date funds, given how well they seem to be doing compared to my other haphazard portfolios, and given my lack of will to properly take care of them.

Just seems like bars being there or not shouldn't be haphazard.

This may sound weird but I think the ps4 shot looks a little sloppy and haphazard where as with the upper 3DS shot it seems well thought out perhaps because they had to show less due to the limitations of the device.

Having each chunk be actually designed helps the levels they create also feel properly designed, as opposed to the haphazard - seeming maps and enemy placements that some procgen games feature (not necessarily bad, but something I wanted to avoid here.)

The orderly nature of the lines seems to contradict the haphazard nature of their making, yet Nawa's work forces viewers to consider the effects of air pressure, distance, and the motion of the pendulum as agents in making the work.

Thick layers of paint in geometric forms unite with different colors in various mathematical patterns that seem equally strategic and haphazard.

«Although our display may seem to put many different kinds of objects together in a haphazard fashion, it actually restores them to their proper historical context.

But while these pieces may at first glance seem to be somewhat haphazard, their installation is in fact rigorously directed by the artist, who accompanied each coveted sculpture with a set of exacting written instructions for the placement of every tile (making them akin to a Sol LeWitt wall drawing).

To my thinking, it seems something is either haphazard or it's mimicked to look that way, which then corrupts the true meaning of the word.It would be better to say, «A grouping of small stretched paintings that appropriate haphazard stretching techniques from sophomore painting class.»

Straight, short staccato dashes arranged on a diagonal seem to shatter vertical and horizontal lines and vice versa, resulting in discordant, haphazard arrangements.

Compositional elements that at first glance seem incongruous or haphazard reveal unanticipated harmonies.

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.

At present, survey researchers» choice of term seems somewhat haphazard — some surveys refer to the phenomenon as «global warming» (e.g., CBS News and New York Times 2006), others as «climate change» (e.g., Bloomberg 2009), and still others use the terms simultaneously (e.g., «global warming or climate change»; PIPA / Knowledge Networks 2005).

Just a few points lower, at 7.6 pH, the clownfish were completely disoriented and just swam around in a haphazard pattern - more haphazard than fish normally seem to swim in.

Eregion seems to be quite ideally located wrt to this; — RRB - But really, we have no good maps of the eastern parts so it's a bit haphazard to guess how the weather systems in Rhûn would have affected the gathering of evil forces there.

In addition, some of the access to justice recommendations seem a bit haphazard.

[W] e lawyers pride ourselves on our capacity for ingenuity... At some level, we take offence at the idea of project management because it seems to reduce this wonderful profession of ours to little more than a series of steps, a collection of flow charts that anyone could follow... The day of the haphazard lawyer, who pursues a solution by intuition, experience and the loosest possible timetable, is drawing to a close.

If Google wants a larger piece of the personal communication pie, it'll have to boost adoption of its services — and it seems like consolidating its haphazard range of products would be a good first step in that direction.

«It seems insane that you can make haphazard decisions about so many people's data,» said Can Duruk, a technology consultant and software engineer.

The ZenFone 2 series always seemed a little haphazard, with myriad near - identical products thrown into the mix.

The use of textures can make on - screen elements less streamlined or attractive, and Samsung seems to have no sense of how large things should be — layout choices feel haphazard and made with little understanding of their ultimate on - screen appearance.

Facebook and Twitter were clearly unprepared for an influence campaign of this scale, but the threat seemed equally haphazard.

The book is so haphazard that it seems unlikely to be an official text.

The services are haphazard at best and they seem clueless about how to help motivate a gifted student.

I am beyond words grateful for His new mercies and grace each morning but especially this morning when everything seemed a bit haphazard.

The Anthro pom poms seemed a little more haphazard and fun and my pom poms seemed a little uniform.