| Since the grouping here isn't chronological, there's an unavoidably scattershot feel to the set list. |
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| Literature concerning photography by Africans remains scattershot and largely insubstantial. |
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| His political beliefs are covered in a piecemeal, scattershot fashion that will be frustrating to fans and foes alike. |
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| Even in his most scattershot moments, Bhansali gives us something stunning to look at. |
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| This isn't a traditional three act film, and the lack of warmth and scattershot nature of the story does get a little tedious at times. |
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| But that kind of scattershot approach was almost nowhere in evidence in Boston. |
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| The real beauty of the system is how it standardizes previously scattershot methods of collecting and storing data. |
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| This slim little volume has its moments but is ultimately too slight, scattershot, and self-indulgent. |
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| In the end, the film might be a little too scattershot to qualify as a great comedy. |
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| Decades of fire suppression and scattershot suburban development have created a tinderbox and now you have seen the results. |
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| We would never want to do scattershot acquisitions and then have to think up strategies to justify them. |
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| Far from marking any new direction, it is a retrospective, scattershot double CD of unreleased tracks, alternate mixes and rare B-sides. |
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| While you want broad exposure, what you cannot do is have a scattershot approach to your public relations campaign. |
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| But it's a scattershot effort, abandoned as soon as big fires break out. |
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| Despite powerful evidence that such a system would be a boon to law enforcement, the NRA has adopted a scattershot, drive-by-shooting approach to mowing down the idea. |
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| He's right, but these kinds of pointed attacks have been scattershot. |
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| So far, charter schools have brought to California a scattershot of educational options that have undeniably benefited certain clienteles in certain places. |
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| This is why the Conservatives' scattershot stimulus spending was so short-sighted. |
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| Those without a clue about the basis for the movie will simply be baffled as to why it was made, and why the story had to be told in such a scattershot fashion. |
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| Yet this literature is more scattershot than systematic, and the information that is drawn from it does not provide a complete picture. |
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| While Heart's depiction of war as eternal is effective, the play is so unfocused and scattershot that its power to raise our indignation is diminished. |
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| American Hustle is a painfully funny and scattershot film that attempts to con us into believing it is smarter and funnier than it is. |
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| The city is awash, by early January, in scattershot spreads of bright yellow and purple and pinks. |
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| The great 'oh-what-could-have-been' for many sci-fi fans was Joss Whedon's 2002 space western, which, thanks to scattershot scheduling by the Fox network, was killed before it hit its stride. |
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| Nevertheless, each subplot this year feels fleshed out and infinitely more satisfying than the scattershot kitchen sinkery of Asylum and Coven, what with their zombies, aliens, demons, mutants and Stevie Nicks-es. |
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| And though Winterbottom does well to impose a consistent visual style that soothes the worst of Brand's excesses, this is scattershot film-making from any angle. |
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| And so policy in the Diet may grow only more scattershot. |
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| How will we know that this is not just scattershot spending of money? |
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| We are aware of the problems we face: although we share a genuine culture of diversity, our actions are often too scattershot, our results too patchy and our initiatives insufficiently coordinated. |
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| Its scattershot comedy often hits the funny-bone but often goes too far trying to out-gross itself. |
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| It could easily have turned out a scattershot comedy, but it surfs along on McCarthy's charm, lovely dialogue and some delightful performances. |
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| The drug business is the most profitable in all of capitalism, journalist Law notes in this scattershot indictment of the pharmaceutical industry. |
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| If they are just scattershot, and probably many of them are working in the underground economy, they do not really have the ability to collectively protest when labour laws are changed. |
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| They were rad and got him loads of fans and a girlfriend and all that, but in the end, the old stuff was too scattershot to make a lasting impression. |
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| A scattershot chain of evidence leads to criminal mastermind The Zec. |
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