(1) To call the Scottish legislative programme a hotchpotch is an insult to stews.(2) Opting for the latest trend every year can result in a hotchpotch of investments too heavily exposed to a particular risk in the economy.(3) Overshadowed by the Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe, York is a hotchpotch of narrow, cobbled lanes and medieval alleyways.(4) A nationalised corporation, Amtrak, runs all the trains on tracks owned by a hotchpotch of companies (again the effective reverse of the British situation).(5) The content is currently a hotchpotch of what is available (for free), and what a variety of educational institutions around the country can rustle up.(6) a hotchpotch of uncoordinated services(7) The main shopping thoroughfares of Lord, Church, and Bold Streets, achieve, in spite of a dearth of any really good buildings, and a hotchpotch of eccentric styles, quite a pleasing effect.(8) This is a truly dreadful movie, a hotchpotch of historical inaccuracies and romantic fiction.(9) Now, for the simplest act of finding a phone number from a finite list, we are faced with a hotchpotch of different companies, all charging different amounts, all applying different conditions.(10) The villa itself is a hotchpotch of classical bits and bobs (u2018fragments of ancient marbleu2026 stuck into the walls like nuts in nougat u2019, as Chatwin puts it).(11) This political hodgepodge didn't bother screen-writer Axelrod or director Frankenheimer in 1962, and why should it have?(12) By combining a hodgepodge of miscellaneous claims with no apparent context, the author has created a scary image of impending doom.(13) This corporate milieu suits the man who convinced a hodgepodge of individuals, corporations and governments to join him in raising the cash to construct a new space to accommodate Calgary's burgeoning theatre scene.(14) In the early days of the Net, online advertising was merely a crude - almost laughable - hodgepodge of text links and startlingly simple images.(15) The eclectic set dressings and costumes call to mind a hodgepodge of charmingly cheesy pop moments.(16) Besides, what person - religious or not - would accept that her belief system is a hodgepodge of u2018truths and fallacies?u2019
