Sentences with word «slapdash»

The plot's about as slapdash as it gets, coming up with daft excuses to have characters beat the snot out of each other, but it's enjoyable enough, and it succeeds in loosely tying each fight to the next.

Released somewhat fittingly on 4/20, the high holy day on the calendar for stoners, the latest slapdash effort from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe (Club Dread, Beerfest) isn't aggressively terrible or outrageously offensive.

The works themselves are not slapdash cracks but dutifully, even earnestly constructed objects, largely indistinguishable from the classes of works that they mock.

In this exhibition, Wood and Harrison's video works feature brief, humorous conceptual pranks that hinge (pardon the pun) on slapdash props and sets constructed in their studio.

It lacked the crispness of the contemporary Honda Civic Type R's gear shift and throttle response but at the time it was so much more exciting than a Seat Leon Cupra R. On the other hand, with slapdash alignment and cheap tyres, it was a dog.

Despite its somewhat slapdash nature, and annoying voice - over, Vicky Christina Barcelona is a pleasant enough diversion which blossoms to full entertainment any time Penelope Cruz thunders into the frame.

Sonsini combines subject matter sure to appease the conscience of collectors with a familiar, slapdash style, halfway between Sunday painting and Alice Neel.

However, any hopes for Mallrats to be passably good are dashed with a messy, slapdash game show finale that drives the hit - and - miss film down into realm of embarrassingly bad filmmaking.

And it truly does feel slapdash; one of its two modes lacks a proper single - player mode, and neither format feels especially refined or interesting.

The style is considered much smoother and less frenetic than the more exciting but occasionally slapdash methods of Killy.

It was a total slapdash affair — give them a few rough guidelines and hope for the best.

On the surface, Lizzie Fitch's inkjet - printed two - dimensional constructions would seem to be about as far from Six's slapdash works as possible, but they both combine disparate elements in ways that reward extended viewing.

It's particularly true for the non-plot related segments such as the date conversations, and the whole thing has a certain level of slapdash about it, but it's still very playable.

«The builders had put herringbone flooring down in a rather slapdash way, and it wasn't aligned properly, was all over the place and made the floor look cheap.

It speaks to the sort of slapdash nature of the Rebellion, so I have no complaints.

Here an x-rayed pyramidal matrix of wooden pallets and crates reaches up to the ceiling in an uneven and slapdash fashion, reminiscing a conceivably different adaptation of the Babel Tower; it has been abandoned incomplete, unfulfilling a collective utopian desire.

For all their premeditation, Rothko's approach to the Seagram paintings is often revealed in blunt and even slapdash touches and swipes of his house - painter's brush.

I'm not the neatest of wrappers at the best of times — finer details aren't my strength — but the pressies have an exceptionally slapdash look to them this year.

Ignoring some of the absolutely silly decisions made so Brad Pitt's adventure would be a primarily solo journey (with him completely front and center until the final act), like the film's McGuffin of a scientist meeting his end in a decidedly slapdash manner, World War Z fails to instill the film's plot with any sense of urgency.

But drawbacks to traditional legal representation can't plausibly justify using slapdash materials in commoditized contract creation.

True, their defensive strategy was a bit slapdash last night but good lord, did they have Bayern worried on more than occasion throughout the game.

Friends react variously to this sheet taken from its stack, often with confusion at how slapdash it looks taped up there, sometimes making fun of the idea that it's an artwork, with pause for its perceived melancholy.

Like many of Allen's recent outings, it feels surprisingly slapdash.

This time: The $ 100,000 Pyramid, a rather slapdash adaptation of the legendary game show.

Rather everything seems slapdash and artificial — all cream and no pastry.

In her work, she re-creates historical cultural events with a shoddy, slapdash aesthetic, highlighting the gap between the real and interpretation.

It features broad characterizations and actors performing in an equally slapdash way to compensate.

It impairs news gathering: Some 30 daily newspapers have been shuttered in the past three years, and virtually all the rest have been rocked by layoffs, as advertisers and readers flee to blogs and other free, Web - based news sources where the reporting is often slapdash or recycled.

Engaging performances and a certain overall nervy energy help overcome slapdash plotting in what represents the realization of a longtime passion project for actor - producer Mark Wahlberg.

Critics Consensus: Leslie Nielsen's comic gifts are undisputed, but Spy Hard's lazy script and slapdash direction fail to take advantage of them.

What can be said for certain is that the talented comedian certainly needs to be more picky with his roles going forward, because The Wedding Ringer is a lazy, slapdash comedy that relies on familiar troupes told have been told thousand times before in many a Vince Vaughn film.

Rear - channel activity is much more fevered if no less utilitarian; they could've really capitalized on those flying - disc weapons, which have the misfortune to arrive in the third act, when the mix itself starts to seem a little slapdash.

This assertion was taken at face value by our first and extremely slapdash judge, Natalia Combs Greene.

The lazy, slapdash Judge Natalia Combs Greene, in her appalling July 19th ruling, relied on it heavily:

Following on Patrick Cariou & friend's own slapdash effort, the Appeals court produced a high - quality, carefully cross-referenced catalogue of each use of Cariou's YES RASTA images in Prince's Canal Zone paintings.

An ill - advised shot feint and an equally slapdash finish saw the ball dribble clear of the near post, when better options were available at the back post.

Hello, I'm Sian Kellaway, I'm an artist, designer, printmaker, (unmarried) wife to Matt, mama to two boys and slapdash housewife.

I take the SAFE act to be equal parts political opportunism, slapdash lawmaking and a genuine desire to get guns away from dangerous people: good gun control laws yes, the SAFE act, not so much.

That might seem like some fairly slapdash writing, you might claim.

You may or may not have noticed, but I have a somewhat slapdash cooking style.

Slapdash Mom shows you how to turn a bra into a cute little rounded pouch purse and you don't even have to know how to sew to make it!

Slapdash spelling makes your message look hurried and thoughtless, whilst carefully constructed sentences demonstrate that you have devoted your time to communicating with other users.