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  • Growing wiser, they gave up flinging themselves haphazardly at the men and began stalking about, waiting for a moment when an oar was down or a back was turned before bulling their way aboard.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Weasley was clattering around, cooking breakfast a little haphazardly, throwing dirty looks at her sons as she threw sausages into the frying pan.†   (source)
  • Lacking a discernible center, the town exists as a haphazard sprawl of subdivisions and strip malls stretching for eight or nine miles along the banks of the Colorado, directly across the river from the high-rise hotels and casinos of Laughlin, Nevada.†   (source)
  • He slipped on his jeans and shirt and haphazardly tied his shoes.†   (source)
  • The frosting's a little messy and the sprinkles are haphazard, but overall they look pretty good.†   (source)
  • Instead of being installed in racks, a bunch of routers were left haphazardly on top of the servers.†   (source)
  • Everyone was sweating profusely, and they haphazardly dropped their loads as they entered.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, our haphazard little trio in the Shalyapin will take a stab at any little bit of American music they've heard on the radio.†   (source)
  • They had been collected haphazardly, some in bud, some already withered, cut with any knife at any time of day.†   (source)
  • After walking about half a mile, I reached a giant mound of old cars and trucks piled haphazardly along the stacks' eastern perimeter.†   (source)
  • On the living-room floor, the sofa cushions arranged into a sort of haphazard bed, lay my parents, under the guest quilt, their heads level with the gas fire.†   (source)
  • Watching the bird made Cole curse every second of his miserable and haphazard life.†   (source)
  • And I can tell by that intelligent look on your face, Mrs. Watson, that you have grasped that that speaker is not placed in the rear deck haphazardly, no, ma'am.†   (source)
  • And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too.†   (source)
  • I preferred to think that the rooms we searched were more haphazard and less revealing than Owen imagined—after all, they were supposed to be the monastic cells of transient scholars; they were something between a nest and a hotel room, they were not natural abodes, and what we found there was a random disorder and a depressing sameness.†   (source)
  • For their final test, each of the fourteen-year-olds is forced to climb a ladder haphazardly nailed to a wall.†   (source)
  • To meet once a week seemed to him much less regular, entirely too haphazard, bordering on carelessness.†   (source)
  • Then they saw the field ambulances among the lorries, and coming closer they saw the stretchers, scores of them, set down haphazardly on the ground, and an expanse of dirty green battle dress and stained bandages.†   (source)
  • The Pill would put a stop to haphazard reproduction, the Project would replace it with a superior method.†   (source)
  • He opens the door on the first knock, looking his usual haphazard self.†   (source)
  • By mid-September, round bales of golden straw dot the yellow fields on my walk to the county road, arranged in geometric formations and stacked in pyramids and scattered in haphazard clumps.†   (source)
  • However haphazardly, everyone I'd known was growing up.†   (source)
  • Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls.†   (source)
  • Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby's birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true.†   (source)
  • What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country.†   (source)
  • His gaze darted haphazardly around the floor as if the reason for her immunity was written upon it.†   (source)
  • But the enemy was coming haphazardly, uncoordinatedly; they had never worked together before, while Ender's little practice army, though there were only a dozen of them now, knew each other well and knew how to work together.†   (source)
  • The grass is broken up by dozens of these rocks, which at first glance appeared to be naturally, haphazardly arranged.†   (source)
  • Willows lining carefully laid canals and haphazard streams, their hanging branches singing ancient dirges to the wind.†   (source)
  • Phoenix — the palm trees, the scrubby creosote, the haphazard lines of the intersecting freeways, the green swaths of golf courses and turquoise splotches of swimming pools, all submerged in a thin smog and embraced by the short, rocky ridges that weren't really big enough to be called mountains.†   (source)
  • Gas lamps had been installed at haphazard intervals along the corridor, leaving pockets of gloom whose borders shivered as Belknap and Holmes moved past.†   (source)
  • And so they parked downtown and found a restaurant that looked so terrible, with faded and unappetizing pictures of the food taped haphazardly to the windows, that they figured it might be cheap.†   (source)
  • A hollow space under the stairs and some haphazard friendships were not an operation.†   (source)
  • Kota threw the papers across the room, and they flitted to the floor haphazardly.†   (source)
  • "I must humbly apologize for arranging the whole thing so hastily and haphazardly," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • "Don't network haphazardly," Peter Lowe preaches in his $19.†   (source)
  • A horrible moaning sound passed between his closed lips and his hands made light, haphazard drumming sounds on either side of the Royal, but that was all he could do, all the control of his destiny he could seem to take.†   (source)
  • "Mia is still unconscious, but her vital signs are improving," she tells the assembled relatives, who have abandoned their distractions haphazardly on the chairs.†   (source)
  • Most of the wrappings, though, had been haphazardly put together because Rano had sneaked into the living room in the middle of the night and torn them open to take a peek.†   (source)
  • The baby's crib—a drawer pulled out of a chest and laid haphazardly on the floor—was right on the other side of the wall from the bed where Bella slept with the two little Luciano girls, so each wail seemed to drill straight into Bella's head.†   (source)
  • A half-dozen vehicles were parked haphazardly in the driveway and on the lawn, apparently having arrived in a hurry.†   (source)
  • There were no haphazard piles lying around as they did at home.†   (source)
  • It was a horrid misshapen thing, like a red stalagmite that had grown haphazardly from centuries of dripping sediment.†   (source)
  • And against her mother for not being the boring, normal, haphazard mother she'd always pretended to be, but someone else entirely: someone heroic and spectacular and brave whom Clary didn't know at all.†   (source)
  • Between them and the waterfall was an expanse of mountain meadow, filled with blooming wild-flowers haphazardly strewn and seeded by the wind.†   (source)
  • Our bar is a corner bar with a haphazard, patchwork aesthetic.†   (source)
  • He knew that his Spartan, bland supper was on the table in the dining room, but the slight hunger he felt after so many days of haphazard eating vanished with the emotional upheaval of the letter.†   (source)
  • Haphazard cedar fences lined the careless roads, which slid beneath the shadows of the trees and past the bracken meadows.†   (source)
  • For a long time tb control in Peru had been haphazard, but the country had recently created a nationwide program.†   (source)
  • People stood three deep at the makeshift bars and clustered around a haphazard collection of tables and stools scattered throughout the cavernous interior.†   (source)
  • Not that there's much to see-simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields.†   (source)
  • Construction was under way in every sector of the city, all performed by hand in a haphazard manner.†   (source)
  • The often haphazard segregation of the past three hundred years was to be consolidated into a monolithic system that was diabolical in its detail, inescapable in its reach, andoverwhelming in its power.†   (source)
  • His red hair sticks up at odd angles, and a bandage wrapped haphazardly around his bicep is stained with blood.†   (source)
  • The new nation was really an arbitrary assemblage of ethnic groups and tribes with little in common save their location within an imposed and haphazardly drawn border, so ethnic and tribal tensions immediately set in.†   (source)
  • Their movement was direct and purposeful, quite unlike the earlier, haphazard approach of those who were now gathered in the ditch.†   (source)
  • She sets the headdress on haphazardly and then notices her hair again and clutches at it and then replaces the headdress and frowns at herself.†   (source)
  • The houses of the operatives were set up haphazard and the village was denied all beauty.†   (source)
  • Not just the ones he'd cleared out for me and dumped on the backseat floor, but stacks and stacks of others, some store-bought, many more clearly home-burned, piled haphazardly on the seats and the floor.†   (source)
  • So through a complicated, haphazard, and constantly readjusted web of economic, social, and moral incentives, modern society does its best to militate against crime.†   (source)
  • The wind rises occasionally, breaking the covering of snow into soft white rags that fall haphazardly on the ground.†   (source)
  • A few boys still playing ringolievio, haphazard and half speed, the clumsy fatboy trapped in the den, always caught, always it, the slightly epicene butterfat bulk, the boy who's always reaching down to lift a droopy sock and getting swift-kicked by the witlings and sadists.†   (source)
  • I swipe haphazardly at my cheeks with the back of my hand.†   (source)
  • He'd work full-time, find a real place to live, and lead a less haphazard life.†   (source)
  • I return my gaze to the stage, where dozens of dollar bills are haphazardly thrown at the emcee's feet.†   (source)
  • In this haphazard system, newsmen first had to wait until an airstrip was clear to accommodate the aircraft.†   (source)
  • She was blasting some music I had never heard, and lounging at the wheel of her convertible black-and-white Mini Cooper, which was parked haphazardly across two spaces in the parking lot.†   (source)
  • A dozen vehicles were parked haphazardly along the side of the two-lane state road.†   (source)
  • He crumples it, throws it at the garbage can haphazardly, and watches it hit the wall.†   (source)
  • Tossing the empty bags into the biohazard container beneath the sink, and ignoring the still-hungry rumble of his stomach, Vlad hurried to the living room and slipped on his sneakers, tying them haphazardly.†   (source)
  • He counted seven cars parked haphazardly in the driveway and around the front lawn.†   (source)
  • The building was once used as a barracks for migratory workers before the shanty town was haphazardly built around the factories.†   (source)
  • The interrogation room was outfitted with a single white table, six lightweight folding chairs set haphazardly about the table, and a large one-way window that allowed authorities to watch undetected from the adjacent room.†   (source)
  • In the morgue, the bodies are piled haphazardly, to no particular scheme or order.†   (source)
  • She had telephoned some of the numbers haphazardly, but she had no idea what questions to ask.†   (source)
  • I had thought of bringing her back to bide with me, but had decided not to do so, for lonely and haphazard as her life now was, yet it seemed safer and more healthful for her out here, at some distance from the village, than to be brought into daily contact with Plague victims.†   (source)
  • Whereas some of my peers would haphazardly throw their meals together, I would analyze every measurement, every ingredient, then time each move of whatever I was assigned to prepare for that particular shift.†   (source)
  • She notices the way his fingers are twisted above the first joints, stiffened haphazardly like branches.†   (source)
  • Some of the recessed-can fixtures in the ceiling contained dead bulbs, and the live ones were haphazardly angled, so the floor that he slowly crossed was mottled with light and shadow as if it were an underwater realm.†   (source)
  • She watched their cussing, haphazard descent on the fire escapes until they had all reached the bottom.†   (source)
  • The Eddisian camp was in chaos as the soldiers in it rolled out of their sleeping blankets, dragging their swords from their sheaths and snatching up their hand-shields before running toward the Medes in haphazard order.†   (source)
  • At the end of the year, the Pool Board distributes the total gross income, and every individual railroad is paid, not on the haphazard, old-fashioned basis of the number of trains run or the tonnage of freight carried, but on the basis of its need-that is, the preservation of its track being its main need, every individual railroad is paid according to the mileage of the track which it owns and maintains.†   (source)
  • Shade's equipment was neatly secured, and hers was loaded haphazardly into a corner.†   (source)
  • Haphazardly, son, haphazardly.†   (source)
  • The shelves were stocked, though somewhat lightly, and the desk and counter were haphazardly covered with volumes of papers and carbons, the unmanned cash register appearing particularly exposed.†   (source)
  • For example, associated with a cavalryman's saddle, rifle, bayonet, and curry combs, let us say, pictured in brown and golden tones hanging haphazardly on a worn stable door, with the smooth lines of the horse itself vanishing off the canvas, and the cavalryman, in his bright colors, standing to the center, it might in fact be beautiful, but if in association with, for example, your masses of red hair, your white teeth, your extraordinarily beautiful mouth, and your bare shoulders, it…†   (source)
  • Everywhere crude earthen shelters and hide tents sprouted haphazardly, like a pox on the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • The children were fed in a haphazard fashion, a bit of corn bread here, a scrap of pork there; occasionally they received a cup of milk, sometimes potatoes.†   (source)
  • I've pulled my hair into a haphazard ponytail and lost my shoes somewhere under all the folds of material lining my floor.†   (source)
  • First, and most important, Booth tells them, the precise time of the president's assassination will be ten-fifteen P.M. Unlike the night before, when the assassination plans had a haphazard quality, tonight's events are timed to the minute.†   (source)
  • It is instantly sensed by the congested open market that runs along the street in front of the row of dark run-down flats — shacks haphazardly perched on top of one another giving the impression that at any moment the entire blighted complex will collapse under its own weight, leaving nothing but rubble where elevated rubble had stood.†   (source)
  • At present, she was standing before a seemingly haphazard collage of surveillance photos, e-mails, text messages, and phone conversations.†   (source)
  • The testing was not haphazard and I began to see a pattern of selection emerging.†   (source)
  • The facts were separate and haphazard and random, even as they happened, episodic, broken, no smooth transitions, no sense of events unfolding from prior events.†   (source)
  • They called out their own names, women's pretty names, haphazard names, horizontal names of one generation.†   (source)
  • The decor was haphazard, designed for his ease, not a guest's eye.†   (source)
  • What was so wonderful about Leslie, among other things, was her explicit promise, her immediate assurance that through her I would be offered redemption from that single pathetic crumpling together which I had experienced and which by haphazard definition could be called sexual congress but which I knew in my secret heart had not been that at all.†   (source)
  • Its growth was not slow and haphazard, a building added here, a thoroughfare rerouted there, one structure torn down to make way for another, and all parts coming together into an irregular and unseemly whole.†   (source)
  • She had read a great deal, but haphazardly, and she tended to confuse related ideas.†   (source)
  • Then a faint glow suddenly illuminated the room—he'd haphazardly wrapped an empty IV bag with little twinkling lights, like the ones you see on miniature Christmas trees—and now we all started to count down from ten as he used plastic tubing to raise the bag up from the floor.   (source)
  • Now all it held was a big, scarred table with plastic chairs scattered haphazardly around the room.†   (source)
  • And we found plenty of porn magazines haphazardly stuffed in between mattresses and box springs.†   (source)
  • It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air.†   (source)
  • Some writhed and gnashed their teeth, trying to free themselves from their haphazard cages.†   (source)
  • Pieces of landscaping equipment dotted the property; empty pots had been piled haphazardly.†   (source)
  • He pointed to a patch of dirt that had been dug out haphazardly.†   (source)
  • An oldfashioned jukebox flanked the doorway, and a dozen tables were spread haphazardly throughout.†   (source)
  • There were three cars out front parked haphazardly, each coated with a thin layer of salt.†   (source)
  • They hurried across a small clearing and into an alley between several haphazardly built log cabins.†   (source)
  • An oar propped haphazardly against a wall slides toward me.†   (source)
  • There were haphazard detentions, and a steady campaign of harassment.†   (source)
  • Ahead were cars parked haphazardly and people milling about, including some children.†   (source)
  • Or is passion indiscriminate, incubating haphazardly like a cancer?†   (source)
  • Scores of cars, parked haphazardly, noses pointing in every direction as if planning a fast getaway.†   (source)
  • She was a haphazard housekeeper but a conscientious cook.†   (source)
  • This second day proved a hypothesis formulated quickly and haphazardly on the first day.†   (source)
  • The witchlight swung in Clary's hand as she ran, lighting bits of the riverbank with haphazard illumination: a patch of weeds there, a jut of broken concrete that nearly tripped her up, a heap of trash and broken glass—and then, as they came in clear sight of the lapping water, the crumpled figure of a man.†   (source)
  • Now, in the early morning, it was crammed with an assortment of mismatched chairs grouped haphazardly around windows.†   (source)
  • If it had been one of Scott's clients who was this sick instead of a Sherpa, I don't think he would have been treated so haphazardly.†   (source)
  • It looked like a haphazard estate sale.†   (source)
  • The half-dozen cars parked haphazardly in the driveway looked nothing like the police cars and emergency vehicles Langdon had imagined they were.†   (source)
  • The interior was littered with things haphazardly discarded— boards of wood, old shoes, a rusting tricycle.†   (source)
  • Everything leading to this moment as Werner piles the haphazard Cossack equipment into the shell of the truck and sits with his back against the bench and watches the light from the burning cottage rise above the field.†   (source)
  • The building was immense, though I couldn't grasp its actual dimensions because of the complexity of turnings, through doorways where you had to duck your head, and climbings, up ancient metal staircases, and hikes, down corridors that made me think of abandoned subway tunnels, with some sort of yellow fiberboard slapped haphazardly on the walls.†   (source)
  • In short order he had the stanchions stacked haphazardly on the gravel and a mound of rubbish near the burning barrel.†   (source)
  • When it came at last he, Ron and Hermione forced their telescopes haphazardly back into their holders and dashed back down the spiral staircase.†   (source)
  • Although the architecture of the shopping complex looks German and futuristic, the haphazard placement of the buildings on the land seems distinctively American.†   (source)
  • All of the ships gradually funneled together, forming a long, haphazard caravan of vessels stretching toward Chthonia, a tiny blue-brown orb floating in the distance.†   (source)
  • Four cars had been abandoned at haphazard angles along Hill Street, and one near the intersection of Hill and Ericksen had slid into a parked pickup truck, crumpling the driver's-side rear panel.†   (source)
  • There were mounds of tires, stacks of newspaper oatmealing in place, wash pans haphazardly stacked, their enamel crazed like desert mud.†   (source)
  • Her hair was sticking up on end, her glasses were lopsided so that one eye was magnified more than the other; her innumerable shawls and scarves were trailing haphazardly from her shoulders, giving the impression that she was falling apart at the seams.†   (source)
  • The trailers on the bottom level rested on the ground, or on their original concrete foundations, but the units stacked above them were suspended on a reinforced modular scaffold, a haphazard metal latticework that had been constructed piecemeal over the years.†   (source)
  • Agent Simkins was the first to spot the black Escalade parked haphazardly on a lawn in front of one of the mansions.†   (source)
  • It has a sort of pedestrian catwalk running along one side of it, pieced together haphazardly, a seemingly endless procession of gangplanks, pontoons, logs, abandoned skiffs, aluminum canoes, oil drums.†   (source)
  • And then I settled on the books, staring at them stacked on their sides, spines out, the haphazard collection of literature that was Alaska.†   (source)
  • When he finished, only a pile of old brushes and rollers remained, stacked haphazardly at one end of the shelf, and these he put on the workbench, too.†   (source)
  • Even minus the books she'd lost in the mini-flood, I could have stayed up until morning reading through the haphazard stacks of titles.†   (source)
  • There, stacked haphazardly across the dusty batts of pink insulation, were a dozen cardboard boxes, the ones his mother had packed that winter day he'd come upon her with her hair wild about her head and so lost in grief she had not even seen him.†   (source)
  • In addition to the half dozen mobile homes perched haphazardly off the road and a couple of cross streets, the stretch of blacktop was dominated by two run-down gas stations and Leroy's Tires.†   (source)
  • Photos of herself and Simon, the Lightwoods, herself with Jace and with her family, were stuck haphazardly into the frame of the mirror over the dresser.†   (source)
  • A few dozen tables, carved with the initials of most everyone who'd walked through the door, were arranged haphazardly, unmatching chairs circling them.†   (source)
  • It took up the whole top floor of the house: several connected rooms, a small kitchen and bathroom, a haphazard collection of beds and belongings strewn everywhere.†   (source)
  • Her hair was a beautiful rich brown and it was piled atop her head in a haphazard, lunatic sprawl, held by a hairpin big enough to be a meat skewer.†   (source)
  • I still go over to his long white and black apartment, still end up on top of his sleeping bag, although haphazardly: Jon isn't big on planning in advance, or on remembering.†   (source)
  • Several dozen guards and soldiers in the courtyard charged haphazardly at the Varden when they caught sight of them, shouting war cries the whole while.†   (source)
  • In the back, people were standing in haphazard rows; in the front, children were plopped down, sitting cross-legged.†   (source)
  • Clary was oddly reminded of photos she'd seen of the Blitz in London, where destruction had rained down haphazardly from the sky.†   (source)
  • Magazines were stacked haphazardly on the television, and she could see a thin layer of dust on the stereo, which somehow seemed just right.†   (source)
  • In truth, categorizing talents is a subjective, haphazard business; every talent is unique, never exactly the same thing twice.†   (source)
  • A baby thrown haphazardly in maimed pieces across the table smeared with its own blood… My stomach rolled like the walls were rolling, and acid clawed its way up my throat.†   (source)
  • Unlike the military camp, the city looked chaotic and colorful, with buildings crowded together at haphazard angles.†   (source)
  • Scarlett and I pulled up at the party at nine-thirty, which we figured was fashionably late since there were already lines of cars up and down the street, parked haphazardly on the curbs and against mailboxes.†   (source)
  • Even though that corner was as haphazard as the rest of the room, I could see the care he took with it.†   (source)
  • The yellow specks clustered in the center of Carvahall, like a cloud of fireflies, then streamed haphazardly toward the edge of town, where they were met by a hard line of torches from the soldiers' camp.†   (source)
  • Crossing the street haphazardly.†   (source)
  • But some of his freshest insights come haphazardly, from observing students who pass through his office and classroom.†   (source)
  • Instead he drove around town, drifting from one turn to the next, making a haphazard circuit through New Bern.†   (source)
  • She would take each piece and shake it free of its haphazard folds and smooth it down flat on her lap, then begin to fold it again from corner to corner.†   (source)
  • I don't know, but I think it is appropriate for me to decide how to die: not to take control that I will immediately relinquish, but to unify my life, to give it an artful shape, to affirm at the last that everything is not merely haphazard, to honor what I believe, and, perhaps for one last time, even should it mean nothing, to express my love.†   (source)
  • In addition to folding the clothes, he'd straightened up; she remembered that before she'd left, there were videos strewn near the television, a pile of empty cups on the end table, a year's worth of magazines stacked haphazardly on the desk by the door.†   (source)
  • He was barefoot, his hair messy, his shirt buttoned haphazardly, and the sight of him made her heart turn over.†   (source)
  • The door banged against a haphazardly planked wall and scared rats into skittering flight Sylvia Pittston sat in the hall, sat in a mammoth darkwood rocker, and looked at him calmly with those great and dark eyes.†   (source)
  • I can eat haphazardly now, snack on junk food and takeouts without worrying about balanced meals, go to bed when I like, let my dirty laundry rot, neglect the dishes.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the bar, Cesar watched a man down his third mezcal and haphazardly make another attempt to flirt with a waitress, who couldn't seem to avoid him no matter which route she took across the dank, smoke-filled room.†   (source)
  • Not one person could be seen on the paths or in the alleys, but Mark kept catching glimpses of eyes peering out through windows and slats and cracks in the haphazard structures.†   (source)
  • Hazel placed Buckthorn as a sentry while the day's haphazard work went on, and twice more during the afternoon the alarm was given.†   (source)
  • Beyond that milled a tribe of two-headed men dressed in rags and blankets like homeless guys, armed with a haphazard collection of slings, clubs, and metal pipes.†   (source)
  • * :« Later that night, Celia rocks in her wicker swing and considers the star-inscribed sky, as if its haphazard arrangements might reveal something to her.†   (source)
  • Scipio immediately grasped the challenge: a cultural maelstrom of more than a hundred nationalities in an area slightly larger than one square mile, poverty, and a haphazard layout—sprawling apartment complexes with countless dark corners and wooded thickets where drug dealers could hide or dispose of weapons or stash—that put criminals at an advantage.†   (source)
  • His fate now lay in the hands of a crafty lawyer named Wade Lanier, a cranky old judge named Reuben Atlee, and a haphazard gang of accidental jurors in rural Mississippi.†   (source)
  • Stacks of documents were still piled on her desk, books were scattered haphazardly, and the screen saver on her computer was etching and erasing colorful drawings.†   (source)
  • I could not find a phone anywhere, and I scurried haphazardly along the street for many minutes, tears soaking my roosarie, until I recognized the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • But much of the negativity directed at the Fugees also seemed born of resentment, from parents who had spent a small fortune on gear, soccer clinics, and team fees only to see their sons trounced by a haphazardly equipped group of kids with foreign accents.†   (source)
  • The hearings began at 9:00 a.m. in a large, bare room with folding tables arranged in a square, and behind them dozens of folding chairs in haphazard rows.†   (source)
  • I find Abuela sitting motionless on her wicker swing, wearing a worn bathing suit, her hair stuck haphazardly to her skull, her feet strangely lacerated.†   (source)
  • My daughter dozed in her seat next to the window of a British Airways jetliner, her red-brown curls encircling her face, tumbling haphazardly below her shoulders.†   (source)
  • Rather, they were assigned to it—the refugees by resettlement officials they never met, the townspeople by a faraway bureaucratic apparatus that decided, almost haphazardly, to put a sampling of people from all over the world in the modest little boat locals thought they had claimed for themselves.†   (source)
  • They applied for premises and obtained the use of some shoestore or flower shop, which had been empty and closed down since the first days of the revolution, and there they sold out their small haphazard collections.†   (source)
  • He had gone to fetch Eva from her flute lesson—a haphazard, sometimes quite sudden and impromptu affair (depending on daily pressures) held in a gutted basement a dozen blocks away.†   (source)
  • I walked into Sedgwick's office garbed in my winter splendor, boots dripping, gloves sticking out of my jacket, and hat arranged haphazardly over tousled hair.†   (source)
  • But the fact of the matter is that at Auschwitz (and this she came gradually to confess to me that summer) she had been a victim, yes, but both victim and accomplice, accessory—however haphazard and ambiguous and uncalculating her design—to the mass slaughter whose sickening vaporous residue spiraled skyward from the chimneys of Birkenau whenever she peered out across the parched autumnal meadows from the windows of the mansard roof of the house of her captor, Rudolf Hoss.†   (source)
  • By this he meant that they had met not as most people do, thrown together by the common circumstance of upbringing or school or office or neighborhood, but in the delightful and haphazard way of those romantic strangers of Hollywood daydreams, those lovers-to-be whose destinies became intertwined from the first twinkling of their chance encounter: John Garfield and Lana Turner, for instance, utterly doomed from the instant of their mingled glance in a roadside café, or, more…†   (source)
  • She had then been thrown in haphazardly among these partisans, where she was victim less of any specific retributive justice than of a general rage—a kind of berserk lust for complete domination and oppression which seized the Nazis whenever they scored a win over the Resistance, and which this time had even extended to the several hundred bedraggled Poles ensnared in that last savage roundup.†   (source)
  • This would have annoyed Old Amy to no end: the haphazardness of it all, the pointlessness.†   (source)
  • Her step-mother, all unaware, lifted haphazardly now one lid of a box, now another.†   (source)
  • The blows seem to have been delivered haphazard and at random.†   (source)
  • Outside the rain began to stop: it dropped haphazardly and the thunder moved away.†   (source)
  • The bullets rain over, they are not fired haphazard, but shrewdly aimed from all sides.†   (source)
  • Fishes of silver and gold paper had been pasted haphazard on ceiling and walls.†   (source)
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