| 单词 | crazy quilt |
| 例句 | I peeked out my one window to be greeted by a sky like a gray flannel crazy quilt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Mats cover the cracked concrete floor, making a crazy quilt of colored rattan and woven plastic. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I felt as if the final piece of a crazy quilt had just been stitched in place. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She, like many designers, finds a crazy quilt of paperbacks and book jackets visually jarring. Social isolation (and video chat) is bringing renewed attention to the art of the bookshelf 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z The overall effect is like that of a giant Surrealistic collage, a crazy quilt of superstition, paranoia, perversity and idiocy. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Seattle Art Fair is a crazy quilt of expectations. Seattle Art Fair 2018: robots, puppets and million-dollar paintings part of this year’s extravaganza 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The mood extends to the previously owned dinnerware culled from around the world and used in a crazy quilt of table settings. The dish: Why vintage tableware is making a comeback in restaurants and homes 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The streets nearby were filled with potholes and a crazy quilt of confusing traffic signs. Urban Athlete: Cycling Over George Washington Bridge to New Jersey 2011-10-20T20:27:52Z Over many years, as it grew into one of the city’s tent-pole institutions, the museum accreted some two dozen buildings in different historical styles, increasingly pieced together like a crazy quilt. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z There's even a "crazy quilt" made from the scraps of his concrete projects. Male quilters piece new gender, aesthetic paradigms in 'Man-Made' show 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z But her mother-in-law made crazy quilts, piecing together scraps and favorites, remnants and set-asides. Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z On first view, each is a crazy quilt of lush, fruity colors and abstract shapes. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z After watching an introductory film, visitors browse treasures, including an 1885 crazy quilt made by the Jewish Ladies’ Sewing Circle in Canton, Miss., who raffled it off to fund its local synagogue. A comeback for the Big Easy with music, art and energy 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Chigi brought in the finest artists of the day to fresco the loggias; the result is a delightful crazy quilt of mythological scenes and astrological symbols. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Just know this: “Sorry to Bother You,” currently playing in theaters, is a crazy quilt of warped plots and statements, though one designed and carefully constructed. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z This work, a beautifully ebullient hourlong crazy quilt of fabric culled from Irish social dance in general and prompted by James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” in particular, was created by Cunningham in 1983. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z But while Mr. Foreman’s distinctive dreamscapes are crazy quilts with silliness stitched in, “Tube,” directed and conceived by Mark Sitko, is more derivative. Theater Review: Van Cougar Re-enacts Videos at St. Mark’s Church 2012-12-05T21:51:20Z Or, for that matter, the socioeconomic diversity of the crazy quilt of Brooklyn neighborhoods. | 'In the Footprint': A Brooklyn Civics Lesson, Offered in Word and Song 2010-11-23T23:00:00Z We crossed through fields of knee-high grasses, above irregularly shaped plots of farmland that formed a crazy quilt of gold and green. On the Via Francigena in Tuscany, Monasteries and Fellowship 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z From the first item on, which is a crazy quilt of a Dries van Noten sandal that rings in at $920, it is clear that one should beware all enterprises requiring new shoes. T Magazine: Consumer Shoe Index 2011-03-31T21:45:10Z Strausbaugh gives us history as crazy quilt rather than as the foregone conclusion it sometimes seems. New York City at War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z In contrast to traditional quilts, which follow a regimented, geometric structure, crazy quilts are made of whatever materials present themselves, in whatever shapes and sizes. Turning the humble quilt into a powerful symbol of choice It was evident then that Cunningham had taken many ideas from Irish jigs and step dancing, and that Irish music was part of the vast, crazy quilt of aural sensations that Cage had assembled. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z Rounding out this crazy quilt of strained, intersecting story strands and blunt coincidences is a subplot that eventually becomes the main one. Review: 'She Came to Me' overdoses on rom-com whimsy, while an ace cast is wasted 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “The Georgia statute kicks it to the school districts to develop their own policies, and we are seeing a crazy quilt,” Weber said. Few legal challenges to laws limiting lessons on race, gender 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Even so, this is an irresistible crazy quilt of Western history. Review: How the West was won — and lost — by women: A new history revises the record 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z That included consolidating what she called a “crazy quilt” of pre-K programs under the Department of Education, shifting 100 staffers from the Department of Social Services. Virginia first lady Pamela Northam helped expand pre-K — and keep her husband from resigning 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z In Austin, for instance, previous redistricting exercises aimed to dilute the city's liberal power by mixing its voters in with those of its more conservative suburbs in a crazy quilt of districts. As redistricting gets under way, Democrats' prospects looking brighter 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Such rules might feel like another patch on the country’s crazy quilt of covid-19 rules for diners, but experts say they serve two purposes. What you should know about indoor dining amid the delta variant 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Such rules might feel like another patch on the country’s crazy quilt of COVID-19 rules for diners, but experts say they serve two purposes. What you should know about indoor dining amid the delta variant 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Besides, he said, “do we want a crazy quilt of state regulations or do we want uniform rules adopted on the federal level?” ‘Enforcers of preferred narratives’: DeSantis, Florida lawmakers take aim at Facebook 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z All around us the birds were stitching their crazy quilt of songs: hooting, chipping, whirring, beeping, cooing, grinding, sliding. The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Today we see the vast virome as an integral part of the larger human microbiome, a crazy quilt of passive and active microscopic organisms that occupy almost every corner of our being. Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z They discovered a crazy quilt of laws and traditions governing how states collect and count votes. In a time of deep suspicion, Americans put their trust in the vote 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z The result is a campaign that’s fighting across a crazy quilt landscape in the home stretch, rather than a well-defined core of swing states. Trump feuds with vaccine chief over October surprise 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The community-control mantra was a convenient workaround – even if it did result in a crazy quilt of local ordinances, with rules and penalties that varied wildly. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Without that leadership, seniors confront a crazy quilt of changing state and local policies, and “everyone’s on their own.” You’re a Senior. How Do You Calculate Coronavirus Risk Right Now? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Absent national leadership, the country is now a crazy quilt of local responses, with the virus surging in places and flattening in others, but still on the march overall. Opinion | Three weeks after Memorial Day, the coronavirus is surging dangerously in states that opened quickly 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z That would streamline the “crazy quilt” of governance now in place across multiple state agencies, the first lady said. Northam calls for ‘historic’ boost to Virginia pre-K programs 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Think crazy quilts, but in oil on canvas. Review: Striped, dotted, zigzagged. The mind-scrambling painting of Tomory Dodge 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness. How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Lancaster County is a crazy quilt of fragmented government, set in the larger crazy quilt of fragmented government that is Pennsylvania. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z “There’s no crazy quilt line drawing that squiggles all around to try and capture people by party registration,” he said. Commission picks new map for Maryland’s gerrymandered 6th District 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z This results in a crazy quilt of punitive approaches to pregnant women with drug problems, which vary arbitrarily by region, county and local politics. Children of the Opioid Epidemic 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z In some of his work he creates vast futuristic cities composed of buildings that swirl and loom in a crazy quilt of perspective. Styrofoam cups serve as canvas for tent community artist 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z So we tear at things and glue them back together the wrong way, and fashion crazy quilts in the air. How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Even with logical and mathematical guidance, the energy matrix is likely to continue to be a crazy quilt. The complex web behind the siting of power plants Both deployed a crazy quilt of behavior to demand news coverage — and then stomped on those same organizations as disloyal liars conspiring against them. Perspective | Who did Trump borrow his press tactics from? Joe McCarthy. 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Once Congress accepts these two premises, reforming the crazy quilt that is our health-care system will be much simpler. This piece is the perfect starting point for any discussion or proposal. Opinion | Health care needs a fresh start 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Republicans, who made this mess with their crazy quilt districts designed for the purpose of electing more Republicans - not fair representation - naturally will push on, going to the U.S. North Carolina editorial roundup 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Tesfaye drew from a range of inspirations for these songs, and he wanted to surround himself with this crazy quilt of influences. The Weeknd: A Rising Starboy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z His in-game moves were a crazy quilt of pitching changes and substitutions in the field, with Roberts eager to capitalize on individual matchups that demanded scorekeepers use pencil. Dodgers and Kershaw dismissed short of World Series again 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z “Vector control” — fighting the mosquitoes, to dampen the virus’s spread — is the front line of defense, but that job is handled by a crazy quilt of state and local government offices. The GOP Congress must stop hurting the Zika fight 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Congress should attack the crazy quilt of laws that helped cripple Puerto Rico in the first place. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Mosquito control in the United States is a crazy quilt of jurisdictions that includes powerful independent districts with their own taxing authority and threadbare county health, environment or public works departments. In Miami, Facing Risk of Zika With Resolve but Limited Resources 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z As is tradition, the calendar is a crazy quilt of competing and overlapping events organized for the benefit of fashion industry media and store buyers making the twice-yearly trek here for market week. Here's what's going on in every corner of Los Angeles fashion week 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z On top of this, the country is a crazy quilt of immigrant communities that are diverse, vibrant and a source of national strength. Canada gets it right on Syrian refugees 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Instead, its wildly varying terrain is a crazy quilt of geological patterns and textures — copied, pasted and tweaked from other planets and moons. Pluto’s geology is unlike any other 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Reagan referred to the nation’s condition in 1980 as a “human tragedy” and called his opponent’s plan a “crazy quilt” of election year promises. Trump’s Approach Is More Like Reagan’s Than You Might Think 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Greece’s social security system was troubled even before the crisis, already divided into more than 130 funds and offering a crazy quilt of early-retirement options that were a monument to past political patronage. Pensions in Greece Feel the Pinch of Debt Negotiations 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z To summon a Midwestern feminine metaphor, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state is like a colorful crazy quilt. Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign Bakes Humble Pie in Iowa 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Tie these eight stories together and see if the resulting crazy quilt doesn’t look like something significant. 2014: The Beginning Of The End Of The Carbon-Energy Era 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The result is a crazy quilt of comically contrived districts in which voters are treated as pawns in an insiders’ game. Can Larry Hogan bring much-needed redistricting reform to Maryland? That's creating the appearance of a crazy quilt of Ebola measures. Where's the czar? Critics say administration slow to respond to Ebola 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z That’s creating the appearance of a crazy quilt of Ebola measures. AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The crazy quilt that is St. Louis County government helps explain why violence broke out in Ferguson, of all the places in the country for a riot. The County Map That Explains Ferguson’s Tragic Discord 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Conceived in the pre-digital era, Otlet’s scheme relied on a crazy quilt of analog technologies like microfilm, telegraph lines, radio transmitters and typewritten index cards. The lost promise of the Internet: Meet the man who almost invented cyberspace 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, sex education in the U.S. is a crazy quilt of haphazard programs. Put the Sex Back in Sex Ed 2014-03-13T11:02:38Z But the Alpine sports venues, a crazy quilt of different spots at different altitudes — ski jumping over here, downhill over there, cross-country God knows where — are another matter entirely. A Wild Ride: Navigating Sochi’s Games 2014-02-15T21:57:57Z Was this not a more amazing find than any crazy quilt? My Story: Traces of a Man Who Disappeared 2013-07-08T05:00:01Z Most of those days must be patched together into a crazy quilt of weeks and months, with off-day celebrations for the missed holidays and birthdays. At War Blog: Finding Home Again After Deployment 2012-11-13T17:26:23Z Two masked gunmen lurking outside the door did their work quickly, killing him before disappearing by motorcycle into the crazy quilt of São Paulo’s sprawl. Spike in Police Officer Deaths Alarms São Paulo 2012-10-03T01:58:08Z A crazy quilt of federal tax and election laws makes simple answers elusive. Is Your Political Donation Deductible? 2012-09-29T02:02:34Z Unable to impose their policy agenda at the federal level, these activists are now trying to fashion a crazy quilt of state and even local rules on everything from privacy to cybersecurity. The Madness of Regulating VoIP as a Public Utility 2012-09-10T09:30:40Z Yet the result is a crazy quilt of companies–graphically illustrated in that mess of a chart on the right–that drives marketers and agencies crazy. Google Makes Renewed Grab for the Rest of Online Advertising 2012-06-05T16:00:29Z I think it's a crazy quilt of messages that are being sent out to the public, but more importantly to the kids. Emmert: Coaches being held more accountable 2012-04-20T18:47:08Z They happen along a crazy quilt of faults and hence are unpredictable. Fingerprints of a Monster Quake 2012-01-30T21:17:03Z Taken together as a crazy quilt, they describe a New York that is simply timeless. Lens Blog: Compelling Photographs From New York and the Region 2011-12-24T01:00:22Z In the "Pendulum" Katy has a new patch in her crazy quilt which the ice man cut from the end of his four-in-hand. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z A reader isn't a book, anyway; it's a crazy quilt. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z It lies at the crossroads of India, Myanmar, China and Nepal, and is an ethnic and religious crazy quilt, populated by a diverse mix of indigenous tribes. Blockades Isolate India?s Manipur State Even More 2011-11-15T02:52:31Z As old ladies put by scraps of silk for a crazy quilt, shall not an author, also, treasure in his desk shreds of character and odds and ends to make a plot? Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z An imperfect book, built with the spoils of a thousand books; a crazy quilt made of patches out of gowns of queens and scullions.” In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z She has been collecting scraps of silk for a long time past to make a crazy quilt, and she intends to donate it to us. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z The result is a crazy quilt of anger—and as if those problems weren’t enough, common criminals are capitalizing on the region’s bloody chaos to advance their own interests. In Russia, Putin's Policies Are a Disaster 2011-01-30T15:00:00Z Her belly is a crazy quilt of scars that her son loves to fling his arms around. Eaten Alive: 5-year battle with flesh-eating germ 2010-08-09T04:09:00Z Here his wife clipped, also, for her crazy quilt. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Unemployment rules are a crazy quilt, with no two states quite the same. End of Census, and for Many, End of a Job 2010-07-12T00:54:00Z In short order, he bought a pair of Mennonite quilts, a Native American quilt and a Victorian-style crazy quilt. 2010-01-24T17:04:00Z Picking up a crazy quilt cushion from his chair, the old man surveyed it tenderly. The Loves of Ambrose And by the time I'd gotten a grip on myself, we were just a few houses away from the blazing inferno of Stoddard's crazy quilt dwelling. Rats in the Belfry The parched earth had split open everywhere in gaping cracks that intersected and made patterns in the garden like a crazy quilt. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars Look at this crazy quilt," chuckled Jacqueline, busily unwrapping parcels, "It is made of the Sunday dresses of all Mrs. Sykes' friends and relations. Kildares of Storm Her loftiest reach of splendor was a crazy quilt; and her rag carpets were highly esteemed. In a Little Town Their dress was as varied as pieces in a crazy quilt. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail For once they were induced to leave the making of ruffles and crazy quilts, to give their silent voice for the suppression of vice. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The crazy quilt of outdated, clumsy old buildings that was the local Starmen's Enclave. Starman's Quest I do wish I could get silk pieces enough to make a crazy quilt. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 But I hadn't seen a 'crazy quilt' then. Aunt Jane of Kentucky “We’re so crazy that a crazy quilt is sensible compared to us.” Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike A perfect lady, nobly built, Constructed like a crazy quilt. The Re-echo Club For the whitewash had come off of Mr. Crow in patches, until he looked like a black-and-white crazy quilt. Hollow Tree Nights and Days Besides, they are all making 385b crazy quilts of their own. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Not a single "crazy quilt" was there in the collection. Aunt Jane of Kentucky At first you fancy they are built As patterns for a crazy quilt, But soon you see that they express An ambient simultaneousness. The Book of Humorous Verse A grain man might have condemned it as a "crazy quilt" because bits of high color obtruded inharmoniously. Deep Furrows Overhead the marred sky shone in crazy quilt patterns. The Sky Is Falling “Oh! oh!” she cried, “what lovely, lovely pieces for a crazy quilt!” Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 If you hear enough of them, you see there is no pattern whatever; it is a crazy quilt. President Wilson's Addresses This epistle did indeed look like a crazy quilt. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 And she said she had jest finished a crazy quilt with seven thousand pieces of silk in it, and each piece trimmed with seven hundred stitches of feather stitchin'—she'd counted 'em. Samantha on the Woman Question Another correspondent has an office that looks as if it had been decorated with a crazy quilt. Business Correspondence “And I will bring my crazy quilt and show it to you, when I get it done, Mrs. Burbank,” added Linda. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 "But if she's about to die, what does she want with a crazy quilt?" The Late Mrs. Null Indeed, one would imagine that Dame Nature had been trying a gigantic crazy quilt and had flung it over the bed of the Qu'Appelle valley, that all who went by might admire her handiwork. Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear I told her that if she wanted a govermunt quilt and wanted it appropriate she ort to have a crazy quilt. Samantha on the Woman Question "Why, it's my old crazy quilt, but it isn't crazy now!" cried Aunt Hannah, and her very spectacles seemed to glisten with amazement. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Whereupon Johnny spoke up, and said: “If you don’t get on with your crazy quilt any faster than my sister does with hers, you won’t ever get it done!” Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 She 'tends to go to glory all wrap up in a crazy quilt, jus chockfull ob all de colors of the rainbow. The Late Mrs. Null You will sleep cold on iron bunks, and miss your feathers and your crazy quilts. At the Mercy of Tiberius After dinner Katy would show him the new patch in her crazy quilt that the iceman had cut for her off the end of his four-in-hand. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million And with that she ran cross the field, and left Jimmy Scarecrow alone with the crazy quilt and the doll-baby. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories A crazy quilt with a history is no trifling piece of work, and the girls have not yet heard the story. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 She put down the crazy quilt, upon the unfinished corner of which she was making a few feeble stitches, and looked at Uncle Isham with a troubled frown. The Late Mrs. Null Thekla ran in, first, to remove the embroidered pillow shams and the dazzling, silken "crazy quilt" that was her choicest possession. Stories of a Western Town His ward would have looked like an animated crazy quilt if he had had his way. Mary-'Gusta "And so he and she had it back and forth and finally they struck a bargain at seven dollars for the one that looked most like a crazy quilt." Shavings It was like a crazy quilt, here dark, there light, with streaks and stars and streams of fire shining out of the blackness. The Young Forester |
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