Word: haphazard
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Serpent of the Nile. The second night brought far vaster sweep, but greater sprawl. A marvel of language, full of what Coleridge called Shakespeare's "angelic strength," Antony with its 42 scenes is also full of history's tumultuous, haphazard movement. Not angelic wings, but seven-league boots are needed for this panoramic drama of conquests and civil wars that is even more a chronicle of power than it is of passion. The characters are uniformly worldlings, plotters, palter-ers, betrayers; even Antony is destroyed by lust, not love; and Cleopatra is as devious as she is passionate...
Congress appropriated a record peacetime $96 billion, while individual Congressmen tried, usually in vain, to whittle down expenditures. Most of this whittling was haphazard slashing in the hope that it would strike fat, not muscle; Congress knew that it could not really understand the vast and complex budgets of the administrative departments...
Hell-for-leather abstractionists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning have kept Manhattan art circles spinning all season. Their swirls, blobs and blizzards of paint, most of them too haphazard for analytical discussion, drew cheers and jeers, started scores of cocktail-party tiffs...
...Haphazard planning has left its mark on University property. Ancient buildings, incongruous architectural styles, and random positioning make clear the need for a University planning group to develop an effective long range building program...
...Irreparable" and "haphazard" are excellent words with which to describe the plight of U.S. Army reservists...