Sentence examples for ambitious mess from inspiring English sources

Which is worse a boring but structurally sound skating outfit or an impractical, ambitious mess?

The immediate comparison with Mitchell is Richard Kelly, who broke through with the cult hit Donnie Darko, then squandered his goodwill on its follow-up, Southland Tales – again, an over-ambitious mess of a movie.

Throughout his career he veered between hugely ambitious, sprawling messes (like "La Forza del Destino") and works with more dramatic unity (like "Un Ballo in Maschera," to be revived at the Metropolitan Opera on Dec. 17).

"If the Americans are not very careful with that ambitious little lot, they will find themselves in an unholy mess," he said.

Over-beating produced a buttery mess, and ambitious decorations sank gradually into gloop.

"The Buccaneers" as it was left is a pretty mess — an ambitious canvas spottily covered with pastel sketches.

It went from sending in the professionals to fix a DIY mess to more ambitious projects, under a new name DIY SOS: The Big Build.

He's proud of his success, ambitious about his music, thoroughly messed up about women and suspicious of all his newfound prerogatives.

On Thursday, officials unveiled an ambitious $13 billion solution to the Kennedy mess.

Perhaps that plan will be so ambitious and smart, that the current mess will all make sense.

But in uncertain times for both cinema as an art form and queerness in mainstream culture, it is heartening to see talented, ambitious film-makers embracing the real – mess and all.