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Joined together, however, they form something of a crazy quilt.

At first, state welfare programs look like a crazy quilt.

Crazy quilts were also very popular at the close of the century.

This was, at least for the moment, the final piece in the crazy quilt of medical institutions.

On his back sat a colorful individual, who looked as if she had been made from a crazy quilt.

The screens look like crazy quilts of modern art history.

As in any 850-year-old city, the downtown street grid is a crazy quilt.

Behind today's comments lay a crazy quilt of political considerations.

Most research takes place at medical schools and hospitals, where it is paid for by a crazy quilt of sources.

American Jews are a crazy quilt of backgrounds and practices.

The man was himself a crazy quilt of textures and substances.

The result is a crazy quilt of alliances and protectionism.

An example of a crazy quilt from the Smithsonian.

"It seems you're cut from the same crazy quilt."

It is also used to decorate the joins in crazy quilting.

Often sold without development restrictions, the result was a crazy quilt of speculators.

Main courses are also a crazy quilt of disasters and delights.

Her thighs and buttocks were a crazy quilt of bruises.

These have created a veritable crazy quilt of contradictory legislation.

A crazy quilt features the appliqued silhouette of a child's hand.

The patches are chosen based on color rather than pattern and the result is akin to a crazy quilt.

The overall effect was of a checkerboard done by an old lady who made crazy quilts.

Everything in the crazy quilt of later Modernism has been said to trace from his singular authority.

In truth, the real impediment to legal action is not public opinion, but Europe's crazy quilt of laws.

Each is a more or less truculent crazy quilt of images, styles and events.