Today's GOP is a crazy-quilt of special interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look at the Base] Reference

Fields fled beneath them, looking like a crazy-quilt in pastel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking Point] Reference

All Kiki saw was a crazy-quilt pattern of bright lights and hard I things.    From Wordnik.com.  [RL’s Dream] Reference

Equally absurd, the U.S. has the most fragmented crazy-quilt of local governments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Dreier: Candidates Must No Longer Ignore America's Metro Areas] Reference

And do those people resent the burdens that are imposed on them by this crazy-quilt system?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks On Business Social Responsibility] Reference

Copper-dome Bodhi drip a silver kimono like a crazy-quilt stargown through a dream night wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"] Reference

It disappeared in a crazy-quilt jumble of two - and three-storied stone buildings and houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icerigger]

So what is it about community colleges that enables such a crazy-quilt of people to flourish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [For All-USA team, 'something magical' at community colleges] Reference

Copper-dome bodhi drip a silver kimono like a crazy-quilt star gown through a dream night wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Cat Sunflower] Reference

Like Wall-E, Up is a crazy-quilt of minutiae, almost by necessity, as its plot is Pixar's simplest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pixar's Small Wonder] Reference

His idea of dressing up still is to put on seven rings and top off his dreadlocks with a crazy-quilt hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bodacious New Voice From Jazz's Far Side] Reference

The detached spheroid had a few knobs and projections of its own, but nothing like the crazy-quilt above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodhype]

Between the birth and the death came a crazy-quilt of only-in-Mexico experiences that resonated with my memories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Divergent Religious Customs Merge: Death Of An Infant In Oaxaca] Reference

It was a crazy-quilt pattern of pentagrams, triangles and other geometric shapes, each made from a different wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission to Moulokin]

A close reading of such a book would end up as a selective crazy-quilt that would likely venture into lazy shorthand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Truly Global] Reference

His castle contained places from all over Chaos and Shadow, stitched together into a crazy-quilt pattern of ways within ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince of Chaos]

Boyle's kinetic, crazy-quilt visual style combined with an ever-twisting storyline has a defined a sort of contemporary filmcraft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Director Danny Boyle Creates a Slumdog Millionaire and Serious Oscar Buzz] Reference

Note also the parallel between the "shower of pearls" in China Cat Sunflower and the "nightfall of diamonds" in Dark Star. crazy-quilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"] Reference

Our current crazy-quilt system rewards businesses that are able to shift health costs to their workers, other businesses and the public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

I took her for a prophetess until, when presently we came to a more obscure quarter, the affable old lady pushed aside a crazy-quilt and remarked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

They were dressed in only their underwear, a crazy-quilt of tiger print, stars-and-stripes, and zebra stripes, and a drag queen in red sequins was emceeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courting Trouble]

By replacing our crazy-quilt, inefficient system of private health insurers with a streamlined, publicly financed single-payer program, we would reap enormous savings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Quentin Young: Rx on Medicare's Birthday: Expand it to All] Reference

They want their audience to spend time making connections between the songs and knitting them together to make "The Suburbs" something other than a crazy-quilt of alienation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcade Fire: Turning An Ear Toward 'The Suburbs'] Reference

In post-election Iran, the crazy-quilt check and balance system that has undergirded the fictitious use of the word "republic" in the "Islamic Republic" has proven to be a mirage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amb. Marc Ginsberg: A Cabal in the College of Mullahs?] Reference

At first, the crazy-quilt inventiveness of Wright's movie is elating.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Instead, he lay beneath his grandmother's silk crazy-quilt and suffered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pride of Palomar] Reference

Thompson's Euless neighborhood reflects a crazy-quilt power-outage pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com] Reference

The present system is a mere crazy-quilt, unsatisfactory in a thousand ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queed] Reference

The Constitution is neither a legislative crazy-quilt nor a receptacle of fads.    From Wordnik.com.  ["'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913] Reference

"I would if I saw you sacrificing your life for a woman with a crazy-quilt past.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Child] Reference

Has it taken previous Chases and tossed them in a jumble of crazy-quilt directions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Daily Headlines] Reference

The whole effect, viewed at a distance, resembled nothing so much as a crazy-quilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Envelope] Reference

It was small, the acoustics bad and the mixtures of colors was as a crazy-quilt to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixty Years of California Song] Reference

I told her "if she wanted a Government quilt, and wanted it appropriate, she ort to have it a crazy-quilt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician] Reference

The game laws of North Carolina form a droll crazy-quilt of local and state measures, effective and ineffective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

All it needed was a coat of paint or two, and it would look less like a crazy-quilt solidified into a homestead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Wife] Reference

They would need seven Dems to come with them, an unlikely prospect, but never say never in this crazy-quilt year.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan] Reference

After such a crazy-quilt career, Lynch says, it's something of a relief to settle into a solid, substantial part for a change.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Yes, she showed me pieces of her exquisite embroidery and had made an artistic and wholly sane "crazy-quilt" so much in vogue at that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Anecdotes] Reference