grab-bag

Recall that this category includes a grab-bag of different religious groups, each of which is too small to be analyzed on its own.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

A grab-bag of village workers and volunteers placed sandbags around the homes most at risk.

Irene's Floods Prove Deadly as Water Continues to Rise Jerry A. DiColo 2011

This is the usual, incoherent, sophomoric grab-bag of populist grumbles, and there is some legitimacy to some of them.

Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011

Popular protest, to the degree that there’s been much during the recent past -- and mainly over the war in Iraq -- has sometimes been criticized for the chaotic way it assembled a grab-bag of issues and enemies, diffuse and without focus.

Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011

How else to explain this grab-bag of mostly unimpressive title sequences?

Michael Giltz: DVDs: Should Charlie Sheen Have Made "Born On The Fourth Of July?" Michael Giltz 2011

Both treat human capabilities and preferences as a given, which they are not; both treat the non-human world as an infinite, passive, indefinitely maleable grab-bag from which we can take anything we want, which it is not; both are cavalier about the evidence on how people actually behave, gathered in economic psychology, behavioural economics, and increasingly neuroeconomics – but Austrian economics actually boasts about this.

Essential Weekend Viewing: Kim Stanley Robinson at Duke, 1.29.10 « Gerry Canavan 2010

Obama led with a bail-out of banks, a bail-out of failing automobile manufacturers (and their unions), and a grab-bag of pet projects.

Useful Idiocy « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2009

And closing out the run is an all-Charm City triple-bill at Red Palace featuring the jittery art-pop and dramatic, croaking vocals of Future Islands, rumbling percussion and jolting rhythms of Thank You and the grab-bag of bizarre that is Ed Schrader.

Nightlife agenda: Maker's Mark dipping, Dmerit EP release, electro-funk at Liv 2011

Long story short, the grab-bag character of the stimulus is a feature rather than a bug.

Matthew Yglesias » What “Belongs” In the Stimulus? 2009

How else to explain this grab-bag of mostly unimpressive title sequences?

Michael Giltz: DVDs: Should Charlie Sheen Have Made "Born On The Fourth Of July?" Michael Giltz 2011