Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inventory is sort of like that. It is a record of haphazard events, the serendipity that Jane Jacobs used to say made for a pleasant city. So I jot down the stuff I bump into, or that bumps into me--nature's bewildering accidents, good and bad, ridiculous, astonishing. The task is overwhelming...
...superhuman task of reviving a crowd dead in a glorified gym, Perry and friends rumbled through adequate renditions of a speed-metal-like "Ain't No Right," "Then She Did" and a well-punctuated "Stop!" Compared to the superb later fare, all this would in fact seem somewhat haphazard, even throwaway, but the imperative of regaining the audience's attention made it all worthwhile. By that odd slower, leisurely drum-pulsed section in "Stop!" the crowd was about as enthused as one could reasonably expect them...
...this haphazard approach to plot development, the storyline often hinders the progress of the novel instead of providing it with the structure that the book requires. The reader often wonders when characters, presented in detail early in the novel, will return in significant roles. Many of these characters reappear only briefly in largely inadequate attempts to end their presence in the story. Thus, the reader is left hanging in anticipation of a more satisfying conclusion...
...Surrey" was given an original, rhythmically complex reading that offered a good opportunity for the trio to show that they were a cohesive group, not just a haphazard all-star assembly. The ease with which McBride navigates his hulking instrument was immediately apparent. He laid a solid foundation for the tune as Blade tastefully used brushes on his kit alongside. Redman then hung on a high note and slid upward to mark the beginning of his solo, in which he demonstrated his full, thick tone in all registers of the instrument. It was an apt starter for the show--giving...
...reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp and chuckle...