Sentence examples for haphazard construction from inspiring English sources

KLUGE: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, by Gary Marcus.

Experts said haphazard construction, faulty drainage and a build-up of rubbish had contributed to the disaster.

Gary F. Marcus, for example, a psychology professor at New York University and the author of "Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind," says distortions in reasoning are unintended side effects of blind evolution.

In the southern suburbs, what was once a jumble of haphazard construction is now neat rows of handsome tangerine-and-rose-colored apartment blocks with elevators, generators and parking.

Before the end of July, the local government in Dongcheng District, home to many of the hutongs, plans to demolish 192 of the haphazard construction projects, according to The Beijing Evening News, a state-run newspaper.

The human mind, Marcus writes, is "the most fantastic kluge of them all," an organ whose "haphazard construction" is apparent in our memory slips, credulous beliefs and self-defeating choices.

Moreover, the increasing tendency for haphazard building construction without proper engineering considerations has added to the potential for catastrophe.

The first thing everyone … did was congratulate me, saying, 'Finally, we can start to do something.'" From the litter lying at the side of the streets to the haphazard residential construction, from the electrical wires sprouting out of crumbling walls to the fetid, green water of the central piazza's pool, the scars of bad, corrupt, governance in Casal are clear.

One long wall is covered by snazzy verbal and visual graphics representing topics covered by the magazine, which include inventive forms of recycling, knockoff sneakers, migration, vernacular building forms, new architectural concepts like "dirtitecture" (haphazard, grass-roots construction or development) and much more.

"Bengal Tiger," which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, is arbitrary in its construction, haphazard in its characterizations, and vague in its moral argument.

Instead a haphazard boom in construction, occasionally inspired but mostly mundane occurred in the 1950s and early '60s, a hodgepodge, but unprecedented, which slowly lifted the convalescent city from the ashes.