Sentences with phrase «so scattershot»

Indeed — that's what I describe in my piece; by giving the more extreme elements of his party free reign, Boehner allowed them to produce something that was so scattershot and contentious he couldn't even get his own caucus to pass it.

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.

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So far, Canada has taken a scattershot approach to building charging infrastructure and deploying more EVs, one led primarily by provinces.

Both United Telecom / Sprint (Clarity Service, 800-877-4646) and Cable & Wireless (Virtual Network Service, 800-969-9998) have begun marketing packages that bundle every type of calling — outbound, toll - free inbound, international, travel card, fax broadcasting, conferencing — into one companywide network, so long lists of heretofore scattershot items are now billed either on a single comprehensive invoice or by categories elected by the customer.

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.

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.

From both the tone and content of the movie itself, we'd guess this could be his swan song: This is a film that gathers all the great — and some of the not - so - great — things about the three previous Craig - as - Bond chapters into one rousing, spectacular, scattershot and somewhat overextended victory lap.

The genre tropes Pineapple Express skewers are utterly hysterical and perfectly handled, but there's so much dull, scattershot stuff to wade through between them that it becomes more of a chore than a joy to watch Rogen, Franco, Gary Cole, Bill Hader et al. having fun.

The women themselves provide good interviews, even if the structure of the documentary itself is slightly scattershot: one second they're speaking about an aspect of the business, and the next the film becomes specifically biographical about one of the key women — but the biography sections are never adjacent, and so we get them all throughout the film.

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.

So the de Young's acquisitions of recent art inevitably look scattershot and rudderless by comparison.

«It strikes me that law firms have very little idea of what business development activities they really want to encourage among their lawyers and so take a scattershot approach to the effort.

So use your time more wisely conducting research on jobs and employers and target a select group with a detailed job - search strategy rather wasting your time and energy on a scattershot approach.