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Example sentences for: messes

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Soderbergh messes up its surface the way an artist hacks at a canvas with an X-acto blade, reshuffling footage in a way that, ultimately, dovetails with both the solution to the movie's mystery and to its larger themes.
An inside NYT story by veteran reporter Francis X. Clines tells of a new growth industry--companies specializing in cleaning up the messes left by homicides and suicides.
To pass on a wise nugget from Prudie's favorite, Dorothy Parker: It's not the tragedies of life that defeat you, it's the messes.
As for whether a Kosovan war will be anything but an American one, you can hear, read and talk about this subject from dawn to dusk and not hear a word about British involvement--beyond the complaint that 'America is having to rescue Europe from another of its messes.
What is perhaps less obvious is that, much as the Cat made sure his messes were temporary, Spock was not as subversive as lore suggests.