mishmash

1 She had made a complete mishmash of the string and could not untangle her fingers from the knot.

2 The plot is a delightfully warped mishmash that involves a space gun shootout, soul possession and a vicious action figure named Zombietoid.

3 But Vinterberg’s delicate, grounded direction and the actors’ wonderfully loose performances insist upon authenticity, creating a tonal mishmash that’s endearingly absurd.

4 Instead the parts often seem random, a postmodern mishmash.

5 The production, directed by Vincent Broussard and first seen in Munich, is a mishmash, intent on imposing social commentary on the fragile plot.

6 Strikingly, given that each of its 12 tracks features at least one guest vocalist, the album unfolds as a coherent statement rather than an all-star mishmash: Robert Glasper and friends, not Robert Glasper and Friends.

7 And while the four fairy tails are cleverly woven together at the beginning, the end is a sad mishmash of an unhappy fairy tail ending with the characters walking away dazed and hurt.

8 It’s a sort of long-form variation of the usual mishmash of short skits.

9 Although the film may echo bits from such exponentially better shockers as "An American Werewolf in London," "Silence of the Lambs," "Misery" and others, this tonal mishmash is a misfire of literally gross proportions.

10 The walls and floor were a mishmash of plastic bags, dirt, grass roots and stones.

11 Our room, with two queen beds, was a cozy 320 square feet, with large, dark headboards and a mishmash of oddball art on the walls.

12 Contemporary white supremacy is a mishmash of old anti-Semitic tropes, racist pseudoscience and bizarre fantasia — what Lavin calls a “bigot’s pastiche.”

13 Accordingly, many of the regional characteristics of distinct noodle soups merged, creating what Chen describes as a bit of a mishmash.

14 Rising out of this intriguing mishmash is Hannibal.

15 "Tron: Legacy" is a mishmash of pop culture references and movie rip-offs, Eastern philosophy and various religions, and one insanely cute, strategically placed Boston terrier.

16 In the meantime an initial swap in February was a bit of a mishmash and somewhat hard to parse.

17 It’s so clumsily told — such a mishmash of allusions, filched plot points and hurried developments — that it’s never even convincing as a perverse buddy movie/on-the-road tale.

18 It was a mishmash of the best and the worst of the world.

19 The story was a synthetic mishmash of African adventure and sermons against the contraband diamond trade, elevated by the leading man's authoritative performance.

20 Ultimately, Iñárritu's film espouses messages that "Life is a series of idiotic images . . . a mishmash of pointless scenes . . . a brief series of senseless events . . . surrender to it."

1 大杂烩

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2 混杂

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3 混杂物

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4 杂集

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5 杂烩

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6 杂乱的一堆

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