Example sentences for: slapdash

How can you use “slapdash” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For the last decade, Lee has been attempting to craft a new kind of artfully slapdash film syntax--one that mixes jivey jump-cuts with Brechtian exhortations, that tries to build immense dramatic structures out of dissonance and opposition.

  • He failed to see how what looked to him like a conspiracy to silence a witness in a sexual harassment case could look to the participants like a slapdash scheme to hush up an affair.

  • Even for a Grisham novel, The Street Lawyer is said to be insubstantial, with "an unlikable hero, a slapdash plot and some truly awful prose" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Grisham's social commentary is called both worthy and heavy-handed: His "depictions of the poor read like something turned in by a cub reporter" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). The book is expected to sell out its 2.8-million-copy first run.

  • The Washington Post 's Desson Howe and Slate's David Edelstein insist the film still has its virtues: Every so often, "something wickedly inspired will come along" (Howe); the film's still "more agreeable than most of the slapdash laugh-machines around" (Edelstein).

  • The movie is "so slapdash it makes Independence Day look like Henry James," says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden.


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