Sentence examples for a difficult and messy from inspiring English sources

In 1854, Melville produced a difficult and messy comic novel based on Potter's failed, forgotten, and pathetic memoir, thereby willfully defying, in about six different ways, popular taste.

A growing list of deans acknowledge that legal education is facing an existential crisis, but the transformation to a more sustainable model will be difficult and messy.

"My point is very simple though: if you don't intervene and let it happen, it is also going to be long, difficult and messy, and possibly a lot worse.

It is going to be long and difficult and messy.

"Housing is difficult and messy, and donors have shied away from it," said Josef Leitmann, manager of the Haiti Reconstruction Fund.

It would have been difficult and messy, but it was not out of the question, and would have given him a unique place in history.

Up to now, removing Cr VI) from the environment has been difficult and messy, requiring treatment with acid, which itself can degrade local water quality.

It was productive, difficult, and messy.

The wilderness narrative is productive, difficult, and messy.

With varied examples and turns of phrase, everyone I talked to said that being both the parent and writer or doctor or professor or whatever you want to be is exhilarating and unquestionably worth it and still difficult and messy.

Some physicians see domestic violence primarily as a criminal justice issue, and take umbrage at being expected to delve into a difficult, messy topic when they already have to screen for many other conditions and diagnose complicated diseases in the span of an ever-shorter visit.