Sentences with phrase «slapdash look»

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.

In siding against the war, we, too, are forced to side with beauty — to defend extravagance against Nazism and, later, Communism (and its icky green redecorators) with the same fervor that Anderson himself has against the slapdash look of mumblecore and digital.

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.

Not exact matches

Jesse has for two years ranged from daily coverage of politics in the Capitol to the occasional prison break in the North County and back again, covering and collaborating on the six day fall of Sheldon Silver and even swifter fall of Dean G. Skelos, as well as deeper looks at Cuomo's economic policies (casinos and other snazzy schemes) and his sometimes slapdash approach to ethics.

The six medium - size orange shrimp were just a touch chewy after their slapdash, 10 - minute water bath, but they looked and smelled like what you get at the supermarket.

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.

Shot on the relatively new Arri Alexa, the same digital camera that was used for Melancholia and Drive, Jack and Jill looks at least as crisp as any promos the main character might have made himself, if such praise can be lavished upon such a slapdash production, much of which appears to have used the first take every time.

The «slick» look is in contrast to the previous Acadia Denali, which was a slapdash affair — GM heaped chrome, wood, and leather onto the Acadia after the base model's release.

Cohen writes that in Bradford's work «there is the peculiar poetic charm of provisional painting — a sense of blah, of nonchalance, of not quite caring about the slapdash, scruffy, Brooklyn-esque «work in progress» look.

After looking at the subject's face for a few moments, the artist cranks out a slapdash depiction of their genitals, all in less than 30 seconds, a comic turn on the work's «intimate» billing.

Through excessive reworking and overpainting, he manages to push each painting beyond generic abstraction to something more personal — an unusually earnest approach in an era when the look of effortlessness and a slapdash sensibility tend to prevail.

«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.