It's an oldies show that can become a flickering re-enactment ritual: momentarily you hear a sound that's both well-worn and alive, with a huge amount of meaning attached to it — it's almost always a guitar riff or a drum fill — and then it's gone, pulled under into a more functional or starchier or sometimes sloppier passage.
But he might be confounded by her large, sloppy collages incorporating passages of etching, glued-on paper scraps and glitter depicting, for example, a woman fighting big snakes.
Mr. Rohrer said he first noticed his dystonia when his fast passages got sloppy.
Ms. Viswanathan, 19, a Harvard sophomore, has been under scrutiny since The Harvard Crimson revealed on Sunday that she had plagiarized numerous passages from "Sloppy Firsts" and "Second Helpings," two novels by the young-adult writer Megan McCafferty.
Everton had allowed their control to slip, with passages of sloppy play which allowed Albion to gain a foothold and the equaliser duly came with 15 minutes left.
As the editor of Douglas Brinkley's "Rosa Parks" in the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives series, I was troubled by Michael Anderson's assertion (July 16) that Brinkley was guilty of "sloppy sentence structure" in a passage that "has Bayard Rustin rather than A. Philip Randolph threatening a march on Washington in 1941".
His larder and back passage are "slippy-sloppy" with water, but he likes getting his feet wet; no one ever scolds and he never catches cold.
There were moments, especially during the fast, whirling outbursts of the finale, when Mr. Thibaudet's excitement got the better of him, and a passage came off rushed and sloppy.
Were any tending toward the condition of sumptuousness?Many passages of Cheever's biography combine condescension and knowingness; others are sloppy, and soppy.
