The phrase "a messy and difficult" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, task, or process that is both disorganized and challenging.
Example: "The project turned out to be a messy and difficult endeavor, requiring more time and resources than we initially anticipated."
Alternatives: "a chaotic and challenging" or "a complicated and untidy".
What's clear from Atuahene's conclusions is that dignity restoration is a messy and difficult process.
His response to the backlash thus far has been to double down on the thorny intent of Three Billboards: "It's a messy and difficult film because it's a messy and difficult world," he offered in an interview last week.
By contrast, some stories are like crab legs – prospective adapters-to-screen might attempt to crack them open but it's a messy and difficult process, and sometimes it turns out that, after all that effort, there's a disappointingly small amount of story-meat to be had.
He accepted it was a "messy and difficult" situation and the party needed to "turn a page and introduce a new culture" when it came to the treatment of women.
"So we have a very messy and difficult problem on our hands, and one that South Korea especially and understandably finds increasingly intolerable". Further complicating U.S. deterrence strategy with North Korea is a complete absence of diplomatic relations.
Brands suggests that even at the best of times, the making of grand strategy is an immensely complicated, messy, and difficult process, characterized by surprises, pushback, infighting, and incremental changes.
Even when he seems to be a messy poet, and difficult to make cohere, I sense truth trying to make some grand, if ugly, appearance.
That included the snails (20 renminbi, or about $3.25 at 6.15 renminbi to the dollar), as well as crawfish in a similarly messy and difficult-to-eat format (38 renminbi), as well as a salad of yuxiang cao, which means "fishy-smell herb" and is accurately named.
"There's a lot in this messy and difficult world that I love," said Cole, 41, in an interview at his Brooklyn office.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama urged Congress on Thursday not to slap Iran with new economic penalties that could disrupt diplomatic efforts to limit Tehran's nuclear program, warning that the alternative of a military attack would be "messy" and "difficult" and would not prevent the Iranians from being able to build a nuclear bomb.
