Notice that does not say "give haphazardly".
These are objects to be bought and sold, never mind that they're presented as part of a temporary environment, as if haphazardly.
Thursday was presented as a "literary detective," doing business in a haphazardly distorted version of the year 1985 and using a machine called a "prose portal" to enter the text of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" -- literally, in a profound, metaphysical sense -- to rescue its heroine from the clutches of a charismatic supervillain named Acheron Hades.
Abrams contrasted this to the process used in Lost, where ideas like character flashbacks and the hatch from the second season were introduced haphazardly and made difficulties in defining when they should be presented to the viewers.
The steak is presented already sliced, and it would be quibbling to say that the slices were too thick and haphazardly rearranged, because nothing was amiss with the deep beefy flavor of this steak.
When he enlisted in the Merchant Marine, his father gave him a Rolleiflex camera as a going-away present, and, almost haphazardly, Avedon applied for a job in the service's photography branch, perhaps feeling that as long as he had a camera, he might as well go in for photography.
Presenting these along with watercolor studies, old photographs and other documentary materials, and with a haphazardly organized but informative exhibition catalog, the show serves as a revealing lens through which to view a crucial period in the history of religion in America.
I was in Chinatown the day before, where I encountered various herbs, not laid out on the shelves of a store and classified as part of a totality of foodstuffs, but simply placed haphazardly by the sidewalk; I could walk down a shopfront and turn a street corner, and immediately a plethora of herbs and mushrooms would immediately present themselves before me, without my anticipating them.
But what was most vivid for those in the present Administration, in their vision of President Romney haphazardly dispatching drones?
