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Example sentences for: messed-up

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I'm asking because I wonder if this year's highlights, wildly disparate as they are (from the slickly commercial Toy Story 2 to the uncompromising Boys Don't Cry ) don't have some concerns in common--the way, looking back, we can see that some of the great early-'70s films took messed-up, naive, hypocritical America as a theme.
Almost all of the messed-up kids she interviews have messed-up parents.
But if David O. Russell can't (yet) make his absurdist vision mesh perfectly with his moral outrage, he deserves our awe for having pulled off the mixture as well as anyone since Coppola in Apocalypse Now . (And Three Kings is a lot less messed-up than Apocalypse Now .)
There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.