(1) Dotted around the pavements, barriers and bus stops were scarves, hats and other oddments of clothing abandoned in the election fever that had swept the historic square into the early hours of Monday, long after the man they called the "people's president" had made his speech and driven off into the night.
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.