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Making the best of a mess was the order of the day.
I'm not sure if my mind could ever function in a cluttered workspace, but I do think an art studio looks best when a mess.
"They are just trying to make the best out of a mess created by their predecessors," said Shannon Edmonds, director of governmental relations at the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.
Medical tests showed that he had low testosterone levels, but that had been true even during his best days, and a mess of doctors and specialists couldn't produce a clear diagnosis or solution.
Ai, it turns out, was also a compulsive (and disorganized) photographer; the current show's organizers valiantly sifted the best out of a mess of some ten-thousand images that Ai shot in New York, between 1983 and 1993, to produce a satisfyingly eclectic ramble called "Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993".
Jarret Wieselman of The New York Post said "Lea Michele's voice was on point throughout this soaring ballad, but without that secret ingredient, lyrics like "my best intentions keep making a mess of things" are best left to Rachel's diary".
Prince Amir always has the best of intentions - in What-a-mess the Good, he is anxious to be voted "World Champion Best-Behaved Dog (Small, Fat, Afghan Puppy Class) at Crufts" - but he is a very young puppy, not very clever, and much too credulous when it comes to the evil machinations of the cat-next-door, a slinky Siamese.
Gervinho wasted Arsenal's best chance when he made a mess of a free header in front of goal.
The difference is that those albums were at best a bold and intriguing mess: the sense that the artists behind them were having trouble marshalling their ideas was hard to escape.
The in-person polls out here are a mess under the best of circumstances and circumstances after Sandy now are far from the best".
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