(1) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(2) Chelsea may believe they are capable of more than the mishmash they have offered up previously in the aftermath of this win.
(3) In the approach to war, both the US and the UK governments mobilised a mishmash of arguments in a campaign of persuasion that was based not on rigorous analysis of intelligence but on the selective use of data and informants.
(4) The government’s decision to back a third runway at Heathrow has been informed by a mishmash of misinformation and missing information.
(5) This audience included 1.1 million watching the BBC HD simulcast – a frisky figure for a channel that has otherwise struggled to establish itself, featuring as it does a mishmash of programming from all the corporation's TV channels other than BBC1 (which has its own dedicated HD channel).
(6) On one level, Reddit is a mishmash of literally thousands of different communities, all overlapping slightly.
(7) It is otherwise a mishmash of free-market wizardry and global cop role-playing.
(8) I think it is just about one of the most shocking things that I have seen in my lifetime in this country.” At Ukip’s biggest ever conference, held in Ed Miliband’s constituency town of Doncaster, the party unveiled a mishmash of policies designed to appeal to former Labour and former Conservative voters.
(9) ‘This guy is making progress’ O’Malley is a mishmash of a stray Kennedy and the type of policy obsessive who even thinktanks keep locked away in a back office cubicle.
(10) The result isn't the mishmash you'd expect (despite the eccentric dish names).
(11) Momentum is a mishmash of sensibilities but any comparison with Militant is overblown.
(12) In all three acts, Kawase sings in an enticingly awkward mishmash of English and Japanese, sometimes starting a sentence in one language and finishing it in the other.
(13) Like many of the systems set up in the rush to independence, education throughout South Sudan is a mishmash of ideals and the possible.
(14) Underlying the unloved mosaic of contemporary British benefits lurks a mishmash of half-forgotten principles.
(15) It's also an odd mishmash of sensibilities: Depp; Thompson (but not good Thompson); and revivified actor-writer-director Bruce Robinson, who was slowly coaxed out of retirement by Depp himself for the first time since the debacle that was Jennifer 8.
(16) The urban heat island effect (and all its attendant causes, effects, and cause-effect mishmashes ) will expand its reach, for example raising temperatures in the Piedmont region by between 2-6C.
(17) Stagg was fortunate in that the judge in the original case, Mr Justice Ognall, was robust and self-confident enough to see the case against him for what it was – a mishmash of suppositions and mild coincidences, sprinkled with some fanciful psychological speculation.
(18) As part of the debate surrounding the 1988 Education Reform Act, Hull wrote Mishmash (1991), a devastating analysis of the use of food metaphors by rightwing opponents of an inclusive and pluralistic religious education and his work continued to oppose “religionism”, Hull’s term for those protecting themselves from “contamination” from other faiths and worldviews by withdrawing into their own tribalistic enclaves.
(19) The ideas in the original consultation document, which emerged from work in the Centre for Social Justice , were roundly condemned by most authoritative commentators; they had muddled measures, indicators, associations, consequences and risks in a multi-dimensional mishmash, which was almost certainly impossible to deliver, technically or data-wise.
(20) Perhaps only an estate agent could say that about a mishmash of camouflage and country house green.
Ragbag
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, for all its recent adoption of the odd leftwing populist policy (its sudden opposition to the bedroom tax, for instance), Ukip is still a ragbag of free-marketeers and continuity Thatcherites who might bond with their voters thanks to their social conservatism and antipathy to immigration – but have little meaningful to say about the economic reality of their lives.
(2) The putative bill has already been dismissed as a "ragbag of retreats" by some of those MPs on select committee responsible for scrutinising the bill, in their view botching the reform of the dual legal and political roles of the attorney general.
(3) The paranoid police have pursued a homosexual witch-hunt on this issue, egged on by media, Labour MPs and a ragbag of internet fantasists.” Scotland Yard declined to comment on Proctor’s press conference, although detectives had previously issued a statement saying officers found Nick’s allegations to be “credible and true”.
(4) With the mainstream meekly united behind that lost cause, it is no surprise if voters hunt around for ragbag alternatives.
(5) ), speech pathology (what is the ragbag called "hypertenseness"?
(6) It was in fact a ragbag of policy reheats and vague aspirations, an acknowledgement of defeat and a sign of panic.
(7) Popularly viewed as a motley ragbag of racist colonialists, Vichy sympathisers, antisemites and oddball royalists, Le Pen’s party was dismissed as a nasty coalition of history’s losers.
(8) A primary school teacher by day, his debut show, Spontaneous Comedian (Pleasance) , is a lovely ragbag of absurd juxtapositions and left-field observations.
(9) The new bill covers a ragbag of anti-crime measures including new rules on the retention of the DNA profiles of the innocent, stronger powers to tackle antisocial behaviour, the scrapping of stop and search forms and the introduction of a licensing regime for private wheelclamping businesses.
(10) I wanted to back-project rigour but start with a ragbag."
(11) They bring a welcome voice of sanity after a disastrous failure of planning intelligence about how to make a coherent place out of this ragbag of parts.
(12) Their departure has left a ragbag of contenders doing battle for the bedsit record player turntable.
(13) The Ladykillers tells the story of a ragbag group of criminals, led by the scheming Professor Marcus, who lodge with Mrs Wilberforce while planning a bank heist.
(14) It seemed an almost comic ambition for a party that was then still – as its leader cheerfully conceded – a ragbag of embarrassing “eccentrics”.
(15) A follower of Gurdjieff , the Russian mystic who introduced the west to a ragbag of eastern mysticism in the first part of the 20th century, Travers was more interested in excavating the archetypes that underpinned esoteric Christianity than dreaming up nursery pap.
(16) The Tories dismiss the ragbag of clauses – from treaty ratification to demos in Parliament Square – as pointless and cynical displacement activity by a dying regime.
(17) Yet somewhere between these performances, the long-ago knowing innocence of Rita and the ragbag of grotesques in which TV has so often cast her, there is another Julie Walters.
(18) The measures have been dismissed as a "ragbag of retreats" by some MPs, botching reform of the role of the attorney general.
(19) A ragbag collection of footsoldiers in the self-proclaimed "People's Army" of Ukip is struggling to keep pace as Roger Helmer strides through the back streets of Bingham, a Nottinghamshire market town once named as the best place in Britain to raise a family.
(20) The current ragbag of foundation trust governors, lay members of CCGs and patient participation groups is inadequate and Stevens really should be requiring a better game on citizen engagement.