Sentence examples for haphazard effect from inspiring English sources

Frears plays up the story's melodramatic strains, to haphazard effect.

But the idea remains an idea; the realization of it is thin and haphazard, the effects undistinguished, the choice of icons scattershot, the tone wonderless, the camera eye undiscerning.

Allende has no illusions about her haphazard scheme and its effect.

This result has important implications for employment practices: As an unexpected side effect of the haphazard use of a performance-based payment system, layoffs will increase because firms become less likely to implement wage cuts.

In other places, Davies's haphazard encyclopedism produces more disturbing effects.

A year after my diagnosis, my boyfriend becomes fed up with my haphazard treatment, with the side-effects.

Towns, villages and communities have begun to work with Sustainable Long Island to remediate the effects of the haphazard growth of the past, and to consider the needs of all Long Islanders -- young adults, newly minted families and the less affluent.

The effect is funny if haphazard, Mr. Veronese's approach never rises above the level of a stunt that goads you into thinking you are about to bear witness to a feminist parable that never materializes.

Like so much of the best UK music, then, funky was a haphazard, fractious, unstable hybrid, but its effects were profound.

The result is haphazard, anarchic.

I don't expect this approach to suddenly give us a magical Tree of Cells/Life that solves the problems of phylogenetic classification-indeed, given the degree to which LGT events in Acidithiobacillus appear to be Haphazard Orthologous Replacements of Random Stuff, the effect of distinguishing bought vs. rented might not get us too far in that direction.