willy-nilly

• “Then they proceed to throw the name around willy-nilly, with Rudolph mixing in "prosecco.”

  SAG Top Moments: The Scorsese-est Drinking Game

• “When you go down this road and you start to just willy-nilly - as I believe President Carter has - throwing race out there, you diminish real instances of racism that needs to be addressed.”

  Steele admonishes Democrats' charges of racism

• “Constitutional head of all military in the US (and a civilian for a reason) ... should just let the military do whatever it wants willy-nilly.”

  McChrystal: Finding bin Laden vital to beating al Qaeda

• “He lay on the floor in a loose heap, rolling willy-nilly with every roll of the Elsinore.”

  CHAPTER XXXVIII

• “So long as he walked four miles an hour, he pumped that blood, willy-nilly, to the surface; but now it ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body.”

  To Build a Fire

• “He abruptly ceased, for at that moment, to enforce his remark, he had placed his hand on Planchette, and at that moment his hand had been seized, as by a paroxysm, and sent dashing, willy-nilly, across the paper, writing as the hand of an angry person would write.”

  Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3

• “The central organizing principle of every single street in America is that people will not start pushing each other, willy-nilly, into traffic.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Finding Terrorists is Hard

• “The missions and objectives were never clearly defined, and the self-parodying "search for WMD" in Iraq (lampooned by the president himself at a subsequent press dinner) was a willy-nilly adventure in comic relief -- to wit, Donald Rumsfeld's classic remark that "we know where they are: they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.”

  The Huffington Post: Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny

• “It gives us a plausible look at time travel and its potential consequences without having characters popping around through time changing events willy-nilly with no consideration for logic or continuity.”

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• “When we arrest people who have hard drug problems, we need to rely much more on things like coerced abstinence from drugs and much less on willy-nilly throwing people into jail.”

  Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Your Crime Control Policy On Drugs

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