Word: haphazardous
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...play is a sort of bifurcated detective story. We observe a variety of events, most of them comical, unfolding in 1809, and we see also how the haphazard by-products of those events--stray letters, drawings, jottings--are interpreted, shrewdly but often incorrectly, nearly two centuries later. The past proves inhospitable; it resists the probings of the present...
Prost filed a new affidavit last month in which she swore that she is still the primary caregiver for the children, except that now it is haphazard and at her husband's discretion. Prost says she still drives them to school and day care, stays home when they are sick, arranges for their shots, buys their shoes and goes along on field trips and to soccer practice. She does all the kids' laundry, which is dropped off along with them. Greene disagrees but is not required to respond to matters already decided at trial...
...production really hits its stride with the entrance of the protagonist. Saccente's magnetic presence and strong voice are enough to bring order to the haphazard bumbling of the Donati clan. He is a marvel to watch. Taking care to ensure his delivery is clear and comprehensible, he displays a range of gesture and emotion that transcends the handwaving and mugging of some of the smaller roles. Here, we have comic subtlety of the true buffa coin...
...Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), compared Harvard's primary computer planning and maintenance program to a sinking ship, he forgot to mention that it was also missing a compass. HASCS's lack of central direction and clear policy was never more evident than in last week's discovery and haphazard treatment of a public log file revealing the names of Harvard community members and their network addresses...
...this whimsical hobbling of normal syntax? In a Postscript, our author accounts for his mission: "Offhand, with hindsight, I can think of many factors bubbling about in my brain, but I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could...