The main story -- set in contemporary New York City and rural Maine, and involving an assortment of artists, yuppies and slackers -- does not lend itself comfortably to her gothic imagination and melodramatic turn of mind, leading to some absurdly contrived story lines and a predictable conclusion that the reader can see coming a mile off.
Successful communication on a budget involves an assortment of high-tech and low-tech tools to keep a constant flow of information between their international offices and Board of Directors.
Dying - that straightforward, universal human experience - now often involves a bewildering assortment of choices and decisions.
And beaches! -- the movie involves a miscellany of men and women of varying backgrounds, ages and skin tones who laugh and weep through an assortment of contrived setups.
It involved a clockwork mouse, his attached son, and an unforgettable assortment of terribly real, humanized animals.
Also known for: Although her tenure at the Department of Environmental Protection involved dealing with an assortment of volatile political issues, Ms. Jackson's measured approach won praise even from those who opposed her decisions; those diplomatic skills led Mr. Corzine to name her his chief of staff.
The new files, Mr. Holder said, "involve a whole variety of information gleaned from a wide assortment of sources, some of which are classified".
The exceptional occurrence of asexuality in natural populations of Tetrahymena almost certainly involves macronuclear assortment, a phenomenon absent in most other ciliates.
Inevitably this takes much longer in big, diversified economies, where any change in the status quo involves difficult negotiations among an assortment of interest groups.Thanks to its nimbleness, Singapore has been able to score a number of successes against Hong Kong, its slower-moving rival.
