Sentence examples for compelling mess from inspiring English sources

Marseille remains a patchwork sprawl of rich and poor neighborhoods, a melancholy, compelling mess of corruption and sun — the anti-Paris and secret capital of a France that doesn't pretend the country is race-blind.

But that result is no surprise: without the full terrifying backstory, the film is a slapdash yet compelling mess.

There's no compelling reason to mess around with Cuba and I don't think Trump will do anything about Cuba".

And Northeast's handling of the Irene mess provides compelling evidence that its customers are not being served properly.

The foreclosure mess presents a compelling epidemic for a "civil Gideon" — a right to taxpayer-funded counsel in civil cases where state actors are involved, and where access to justice regarding fundamental human needs, such as shelter, are at stake.

The Red Sox were a mess too, a compelling story in itself.

Arcadia is an example of how you can make a compelling story out of the daily mess of commune living by making something go horribly wrong.

Like the song, it's a mess but there's something oddly compelling about it.

There is a school of thought within the Bush administration that we should not step into distant messes in which we have no compelling national interest at stake.

"A Slave's Journey in Sudan," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, April 23), refers to the "school of thought within the Bush administration that we should not step into distant messes in which we have no compelling national interest at stake".

Joel continued the thought: "We didn't think we should mess around with what we thought was a very compelling story and character".