Sentence examples for a complex mess from inspiring English sources

Mantel's story is transferred expertly to the screen by playwright Peter Straughan, who can sum up a complex mess of feelings, political motivation and destiny in one clipped phrase.

Our tax code is a complex mess; we need a more effective education system; it's hard to picture a healthy United States in 2050 without some major change in health care.

In 1974, Mr. Mantell appeared in the celebrated nouveau-noir sleuth film "Chinatown" as Walsh, an associate of Jake Gittes (Mr. Nicholson), a private eye who becomes embroiled in a complex mess involving water rights, incest and murder.

Going too far with customization options could turn what's simple and fast into a complex mess — more like Yahoo Pipes.

"Universal Credit will replace a complex mess of benefits and tax credits and will lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty".

When you are in the grip of a big, complex mess, you have the power to do discrete good but probably not systemic good.

This process boiled the hoary old 80s down from its original state (a tediously complex mess of contradictions which accurately reflected the experience of anyone who was there) until all that remained was a go-to psychological montage of a man on a trading floor shouting into a giant mobile phone intercut with some stock footage of Pepsi & Shirlie wearing ra-ra skirts.

"If you don't do that in the beginning, the end becomes a really complex mess".

This year's Farm Bill is shaping up to be a particularly complex mess.

He inherited an enormous, complex mess when he took office.

This book should not be confused with another recent French book, or pamphlet, which also tries to address, from a left-wing perspective, the complex mess we are all in.