Sentence examples for rather scattered from inspiring English sources

The Hakka language of southernmost Jiangxi and northeastern Guangdong has a rather scattered pattern of distribution.

The Radical Party reacted to the election of its most unlikely parliamentary candidate with a rather scattered and muted enthusiasm.

Returning to upright position, Ms. Gray became jumpy, stalking the corners of the stage in a dynamic but rather scattered blur.

Nostalgia for the flower-power era is surely behind much of the enthusiasm for the show, which remains a sweet but rather scattered and shallow exploration of a complex time.

The current literature describing such mechanisms and underlying equations is rather scattered and incomplete.

Currently the available information concerning the main decomposition pathways is rather scattered, and sometimes contradictory.

bIn case objects interacting with the incoming wave are not smooth and electrically large, interactions will not result in specular paths with well-defined, discrete directions in space, but rather in scattered or diffuse paths that are distributed over a certain range of directions.

The spread of towns and increase in nucleated settlements in the countryside, rather than scattered farms, was probably accelerated by the coming of the Normans to England.

To create a new production centre bringing the company together under one roof, rather than the scattered way ENO works at present.

Some recollections of her masquerade seem to cry out for a full-fledged dramatization of her story rather than a scattered oral history: "And of course I was so beautiful, they couldn't believe I could be a Jew.

Re "As the Year Draws to a Close, Deciding How to Slice Your Charitable Pie" (Your Money column, Dec. 8): Ron Lieber rightly observes that families' charitable giving is often hasty and scattered rather than deliberate and strategic.