crowbarred

As I say, I read the ARC and it is appalling, but the criticism of this reads as crowbarred in to add spurious negativity and/or validate the speculation that the book is a rush job (i.e. victim of commercial imperatives) — again, snipewank.

Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009

Space was hardly the appropriate word for this airless, windowless grey box with a metal desk and chair all but crowbarred into it.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

Further historical allusions are crowbarred into proceedings.

Mad Men guide and history lesson 2010

Although the monologues were the kind of things these characters would say, they nonetheless seemed crowbarred in, rather than just arising from the character. i think character has to come first; character makes the plot "a man's character is his fate"; one's sense of the world should just arise from all this.

Plot and thought 2010

One of his favourites gets crowbarred into a conversation about New Labour's fondness for treating its own members with borderline contempt.

Labour leadership: The contenders 2010

A draft of winter air chilled me, and I turned to find that my front window had been crowbarred open so violently that the latch was torn out of the frame.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

A draft of winter air chilled me, and I turned to find that my front window had been crowbarred open so violently that the latch was torn out of the frame.

A cat’s death 2009

It was directed solely to the law by which Congress crowbarred the words "under God" into the Pledge back into the 1950s.

Obama's Patriotism Speech Stresses Life Story, Criticizes MoveOn 2009

That seems perfectly reasonable crowbarred between the right of individuals to free speech and the right of individuals to be free of quartered soldiers, right?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Sonia Sotomayor versus the Second Amendment: 2009

Are they so god-awful expensive that they can't be crowbarred into your construction budget?

What So Hard About Lintels? Brooks of Sheffield 2008