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  • Despite his slap-dash, rough-hewn style, O'Neill here manages to evoke both Herriman and the old-time look of those early animated cartoons.

    Collect this now: Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • The displays that have pushed the Nativity scenes from Palisades Park not only ridicule the beliefs of others -- juxtaposing, for instance, as examples of myths, pictures of Jesus, Santa Claus and the Devil -- which is bad enough, but the whole thing is slap-dash, showing minimal artistic effort.

    Frank Gruber: Akedism: For Those Who Don't Care If God Exists Frank Gruber 2011

  • The depth of this friendship was regularly expressed in a thousand ways, most of them slap-dash and casual and all the more compelling for that.

    Therapy as Shock Treatment Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

  • Rank-and-file members of both parties revolted against the slap-dash packaging and sank the legislation.

    Republicans for Monopoly 2011

  • I don't mean dragging a wetwipe over your face in the dark slap-dash, ecologically dubious and permissible only when drunk; I mean a thorough clean with a proper cleansing cream or lotion, and a hot face cloth.

    Beauty: Hot cloth cleansing | Sali Hughes 2011

  • Christian Young is all right though, Munster has a slap-dash style about him, and they do say old Nielsen was a crackerjack.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • Whereas a classic men 's fragrance feels dressy, sometimes showy, its slap-dash, postshave counterpart comes off all tough, silent, sexy and kind of cool — like Steve McQueen.

    Slap On Some Sexy 2010

  • But the slap-dash nature of the book's last hundred pages make "Bounce" feel more padded than an NHL goalie.

    In Sports As in Life 2010

  • Apologies for the slap-dash nature of the Journal today.

    Mike Rizzo on the trade deadline 2010

  • Ultimately dismayed by a book I found more slap-dash than vivid, I plumbed my own archive of memories, and came up with this admittedly humble verbal snapshot:

    Dorothy Spears: The Kids' Table at Leo's 2010

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