Adjective : a seat-of-the-pants management style. ,The pilot made a seat-of-the-pants landing. From Dictionary.com.
I seem to remember you saying you write seat-of-the-pants style. From Wordnik.com. [In Darkness » Blog Archive » CotA: Page 118] Reference
So what you'll see on tonight's episode is seat-of-the-pants filmmaking. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2003] Reference
The strip of seat-of-the-pants real estate turns out to be pretty valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Bum Rap] Reference
Preparing a good comment, as opposed to a seat-of-the-pants comment, takes time. From Wordnik.com. [About that conference paper...] Reference
This fits the seat-of-the-pants approach taken to the federal government in 2004/05. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
I mean, there is a sort of radical seat-of-the-pants quality to the McCain campaign. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Both Sides for Prepare for Super Tuesday Showdown - February 27, 2000] Reference
This would come as close to seat-of-the-pants piloting as was ever possible in space. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
Most of us already have a seat-of-the-pants sense of how birthrank affects personality. From Wordnik.com. [First Born, Later Born] Reference
"The entire run was seat-of-the-pants, yet she still got an amazing amount of support.". From Wordnik.com. [A Postscript to a Political Life] Reference
Yet the Obama team has a discipline that Mr. Clinton's seat-of-the-pants campaign lacked. From Wordnik.com. [Plouffe Charts a Steady Course for Obama] Reference
It was crude, sloppy, seat-of-the-pants stuff, a miracle of sheer jamminess that it came off. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]
Faced with a shaggy, seat-of-the-pants convention, Republicans are determined to get back on message. From Wordnik.com. [McCain's Tricky Calculation] Reference
Administration lawyers concede that there was a seat-of-the-pants quality to the way events unfolded. From Wordnik.com. [THE ROAD TO THE BRIG] Reference
The organic growth method is exemplified by the classic seat-of-the-pants underfunded garage startup. From Wordnik.com. [Being Popular] Reference
Doing so adroitly will require both consummate technical skills and good seat-of-the-pants judgments. From Wordnik.com. [Fed Vacancies and the Monetary Challenge] Reference
To cope with uncertainty, the Russians have developed a freewheeling, seat-of-the-pants space culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy Of Mir: Falling Star] Reference
"Surge" even gave off the E-Ring whiff of something operational, deliberate, and non seat-of-the-pants. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: Surge vs. Insurgency: Cautionary Words for Cautionary Times] Reference
The seat-of-the-pants plotters – or pantsers, as I like to call them – end up doing one of two things. From Wordnik.com. [Are You a Pantser or a Plotter?] Reference
But what we have now is the result of seat-of-the-pants social engineering with no engineer at the throttle. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » President Obama Claimed that the Individual Mandate is Not a Tax] Reference
This writing of FridayFlash during the week of posting it is a little more seat-of-the-pants than I'm used to. From Wordnik.com. [Friday Flash: Glamorous Royal Wedding] Reference
For a seat-of-the-pants plan to infiltrate the most secure Sig installation in the country, it wasn't half bad. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
Madcap spontaneity and seat-of-the-pants improvisation are registered as defeats for “The Man with the Plan.”. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Perspectives on the Self] Reference
Gray is renowned, and was respected in his time, but nowadays his methods are regarded as “seat-of-the-pants”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » National Review: ThinkProgress Doesn’t Have The ‘Slightest Idea What They Are Talking About’] Reference
A culture favoring seat-of-the-pants decision making might be fine in a small firm but detrimental in a large one. From Wordnik.com. [CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE] Reference
Most use "seat-of-the-pants" methods and "rustic" hives, and this generally leads to low yields and inefficiencies. From Wordnik.com. [35 Bees] Reference
Eventually, we reverted to our old seat-of-the-pants style and I am convinced it has kept me younger than my years. From Wordnik.com. [FACE IT: Spontaneity Is The Ultimate Anti-Ager] Reference
My seat-of-the-pants guess would be Foster and Ford in that order, with Gibbons and Wagman a close third and fourth. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Election Ever comes to an end] Reference
In contrast to the assurance of the "Hérodiade-Fragmente," the Beethoven had a sloppy, seat-of-the-pants excitement. From Wordnik.com. [The National Symphony Orchestra audience directs its attention to Eschenbach] Reference
I tend to have seat-of-the-pants grammar when I write rough drafts, and seeing all the little red marks can be daunting. From Wordnik.com. [[INTERVIEW] The Saturday Seven with Author Caitlin Kittredge « Urban Fantasy Land] Reference
Next, she printed it all up and called down for Joshua Sears to do the translations and some seat-of-the-pants analysis. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
But we're learning that his seat-of-the-pants approach — his faith in serendipitous events — can lead him off course. From Wordnik.com. [Lights, Camera, ‘Question Time’!] Reference
In the world of the blogosphere, mistakes can always be crossed through and corrected; seat-of-the-pants reactions refined. From Wordnik.com. [After Shirley Sherrod, time for the slow blogging movement] Reference
In the almost-four years since Vanessa offered me that advice, I've operated completely seat-of-the-pants without a strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Jessica Wakeman: Eulogy for Dead Trees] Reference
Sometimes the seat-of-the-pants method still works: his gut reaction over Georgia — to warn Russia off immediately — was the right one. From Wordnik.com. [And Lower… - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
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