curate's egg

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a curate's egg (British)

something which has both good and bad parts. Queen's College is something of a curate's egg, with elegant Victorian buildings alongside some of the ugliest modern architecture.

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Held in the International Congress Centre (a hulking late 1970s megastructure which is in danger of becoming fashionable again -- AR June 1980), the UIA is a massive curate's egg with its Byzantine programme of forums, plenums, talks, resolutions, lectures, exhibitions and general architectural carryings on. View by Slessor, Catherine / The Architectural Review Like the curate's egg, parts of this are very good: Witness the fine alliteration at the top of the second sentence, the excellent assonance in wheeled and steely. McGillivray Balances, Aligns Wheels; Braun and Bogren Mend Zazu's ... by Wood, Alden / Communication World Overall, this is a curate's egg of a collection of essays. The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies, and ... by Richardson, David / Journal of Social History More results

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Held in the International Congress Centre (a hulking late 1970s megastructure which is in danger of becoming fashionable again -- AR June 1980), the UIA is a massive curate's egg with its Byzantine programme of forums, plenums, talks, resolutions, lectures, exhibitions and general architectural carryings on.

View by Slessor, Catherine / The Architectural Review

Like the curate's egg, parts of this are very good: Witness the fine alliteration at the top of the second sentence, the excellent assonance in wheeled and steely.

McGillivray Balances, Aligns Wheels; Braun and Bogren Mend Zazu's ... by Wood, Alden / Communication World

Overall, this is a curate's egg of a collection of essays.

The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies, and ... by Richardson, David / Journal of Social History

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