The apartment, he maintains, is both a "cut-and-paste job" and his sanctum sanctorum to protect him from the outside world.

This long opera unfolds with an enhanced musical and dramatic continuity, which seems natural but is a result of a painstaking and scholarly cut-and-paste job.

He said the video released by Labor was a "cut-and-paste job".

How could natural selection have produced such a radical cut-and-paste job?

Still, this is no cut-and-paste job, but a new work of the playwright's informed imagination.

They acted as if the Constitution were a loose-leaf book, a cut-and-paste job.

But "Jerusalem" still comes off like a cut-and-paste job.

Old illegal fake books were cut-and-paste jobs, no two songs alike, many illegible.

His cut-and-paste job has produced a libretto of heightened emotional resonance and surprising dramatic continuity.

Were they phonies, a simple cut-and-paste job?