Away they run, pell-mell, helter-skelter,
slap-dash: tearing, yelling, screaming, knocking down the passengers as they turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re-echo with the sound.
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Christian Young is all right though, Munster has a
slap-dash style about him, and they do say old Nielsen was a crackerjack.
Adventure
His was a
slap-dash method, but the world has been built
slap-dash, and the beauty of mountain and river and sunset may be but the varnish with which the unskilled artificer hides his joins.
Howards End
For example, there was sudden, unannounced,
slap-dash demolition work that released elevated levels of lead dust into buildings where toddlers were living."
Toledano vows to rebuild after settling tenant harrasment charges
The
slap-dash approach from 2008-2018 came despite drug deaths in Scotland almost doubling between 2009 and 2017 and becoming the worst in Europe.
PS746m MYSTERY; drug aid needs proper checks Questions over whether cash was put to good use
And if that means working on this a little bit longer, I think that's probably preferable to a
slap-dash, hastily produced compromise that that doesn't work for anyone.
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Despite featuring a talented group of singers and dancers, The Greatest Show: Songs from Hollywood can't help but feel
slap-dash, as we lurch from one musical number to the next.
Show lacking any rhythm or identity is far from Greatest
There are signs the Foreign Office is finally repairing the bungling of Boris Johnson whose
slap-dash remarks and diplomatic blundering risked prolonging Nazanin's imprisonment.
Smiles of hope; VOICE OF THE
That is why you see the governor almost everywhere inspecting projects all over the state, raising issues on work not done in line with the design or frowning at any attempt to shortchange the tax-payers through
slap-dash jobs or structures of average workmanship.
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The latest generation of cricket fans brought up on a diet of
slap-dash T20 cricket cannot fathom in their wildest of dreams the aura that West Indies cricket enjoyed in the 1970s through to the early 90s when they dominated the world.
Something needs to be done to save West Indies cricket
Predictably, given Edward's
slap-dash approach, his siege was unsuccessful.
How soldiers at Berwick used the severed heads of dead Scots as a weapon; The Northumberland border town has an exceedingly bloody history and was sacked, burned and savaged
Turning the tables of today's impromptu 40-minute restaurant sessions, which comprise a quick drink and a
slap-dash kind of meal, comes the 200-course set menu by London's Bompas & Parr (yes, that's 200, individual, dishes).
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A local critic then judged the work the 'perfection of ugliness: undoubtedly a clever painting, though treated in a
slap-dash manner, amounting to affectation'.
Contemporary art scandalises newspapers but, as Ronald Pickvance noted in 1963, even Degas was misunderstood by the British press
This process assures the assembly work as one unit, rather than a
slap-dash conglomeration of parts which have been peened, beaten, filed, lapped and generally fudged hither and yon until the gun works--mostly.
Diligence and sophistication: a Stan Chen Custom 1911
This double denial seemed less a refusal of art-historical categorization than a circumvention of any fixed material state in an aleatory, provisional insistence that no thing is its own apotheosis but that each is just a
slap-dash by-product of something else.
Cristiano Lenhardt: Amparo 60 Galeria