Sentences with phrase «with scattershot»

But the way to win the attention of an employer isn't with this scattershot approach.

Despite these expanding leadership opportunities, it is still far too common for teachers to be pigeonholed into traditional roles or provided with scattershot opportunities to exercise their leadership skills that fail to offer strategic approaches to personal career development.

Along with the scattershot nature of the film, one has to wonder exactly who this film was aimed at.

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.

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«If you throw the job to someone with neither the skills nor the inclination to do the best job, you end up with poorly done, scattershot content that hurts your brand instead of building it.

With shorter keywords, competition for rankings can be fierce, but visits can be scattershot and ROI can be low.

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?

Only Bryan Cranston, as Teller's downsized dad, emerges with his dignity fully intact from Get a Job, whose scattershot direction is credited to Dylan Kidd («Roger Dodger»).

Critics Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

Lazy, scattershot and excruciatingly unfunny, the movie is a hazard to the very young, who might come away with the erroneous impression that movies don't get any better than this.

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.

«The Campaign» is a Ferrell - Galifianakis comedy first and foremost, with its brand of broad, too - too crudeness passing for comedy these days, but it's still timely and scattershot - hilarious.

Critic Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

Just like most films based on improvisational performances, the laughs are scattershot, with some bits working better than the others.

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.

Ten Years Later, with its adults now playing adults, is less emotionally rooted and its parody more scattershot.

With a considerably scattershot plot, one which has a somewhat episode design, Nerdland lacks some of the narrative momentum that comes from more cohesive stories.

On the other hand, I found little fault with Pellington's rich commentary track, a scattershot but ultimately rewarding marriage of thematic survey and production backstory embedded with a pithy defense for the practice of letterboxing.

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.

He goes as far as integrating snippets of anime, clips stylized like J - POP videos, and an opening credits sequence rife with comic book action bubbles into his scattershot visual melting pot.

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.

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.

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 domestic scenes, where Cage surrounded by comedians like Paul Scheer and Will Sasso as his mates, and where he gets all Zero Dark Flirty with McLendon - Covey, are far more interesting than the foreign ones, where a riff - laden cameo by Rainn Wilson sums up the more scattershot approach.

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.

by Walter Chaw Apparently named after a dinosaur rock band for no other reason than that it is a logy, prehistoric stillbirth imbued with the corpulent stench of excess (and probably a scattershot popularity attributable to a feeble - minded few), Bad Company would be the worst film I have seen this year had I not attended Cameron Diaz's The Sweetest Thing.

From the somewhat scattershot narrative — evoking at times a Nicolas Roeg film and Richard Lester's Petulia — we gradually piece together that Alec has twice left Marjorie for Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger), an American coworker, but has recently become obsessed with rejoining his former wife.

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.

Die - hard «Cloverfield» conspiracy theorists can distract themselves by figuring out this story's relationship with the other two films, even if the connections feel vague and scattershot at best.

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.

Also, Phillips» timing and focus during the more significant comic set pieces (the car crash, a chase across the border of Mexico, and the one - sided fight with the veteran) is scattershot.

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.

Adam Sandler's new movie is a pretty good scattershot comedy with counterterrorism as its backdrop.

While an enjoyable lark filled with a number of giddily enjoyable moments, this adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel is oftentimes a fairly uneven and scattershot affair with extended sequences that frankly do not work particularly well.

He stumbled with his follow - up, the scattershot «Seven Psychopaths,» but «Three Billboards» is his most accomplished work yet, and will likely earn him a trip to the Oscars for either his writing or directing (or both).

In Russell's hands, Wahlberg always elevates, and Russell rebounds from a scattershot run with uncommon energy.

The musical interlude unexpectedly brings the scattershot adventure momentarily into focus with some assistance from an indispensible but ultimately squandered Michael Caine.

It's a scattershot blast aimed at teens with an extremely short attention span and a girl - fighting fixation.

Director Zach Snyder's finished product is, like his Man of Steel and others, very long, heavy, cluttered, scattershot movie laden with seriousness, explosions, boring CGI creatures, and a thundering musical score.

Other small presses are scattershot, with some books breaking the top 20k and others never selling more than a few copies.

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Painters Panting argued for painting's continued relevance with a compelling, if scattershot, collection of artists.

Painted on such unconventional materials as mattress fabric, offset wood and a box from a pharmacy, they make up for their scattershot, unrefined nature with a taste of the shape of things to come: raw visages, scrawled text and an obsession with the organisation of space.

Gunter Reski's exhibition at Zwinger Galerie in Berlin, earlier this year, lined the walls with paintings on paper in an array of disparate styles that recalled Majerus's scattershot sampling.

The hang here is jumbled and messy, and the signage during the opening days was scattershot, but the work crackles with energy.

The Nvidia Shield TV, a $ 200 Android - based streaming box with excessive processing power, appeals to a scattershot of audiences.

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.

Using a scattershot method of blasting all companies with related openings is a waste of time.