The work was a painstaking assembly of Ms. Sze's own devising, the result of a step-by-step process that she described sardonically as "mess, mess, mess, mess, art".
One despairing international election expert described the mess as the very worst they had seen in a long career of sorting out messy elections.
Mr. Geller, who drives an all-electric car, said he was crushed by the spill but doubted that a costume could comment until someone in a meeting described the mess as "really bad planning".
He visited the site on Friday, and described the mess as "a big marsh of black goo".
When Mr. Clinton's troops arrived in 1993, they went to some lengths to describe the "mess" that George H. W. Bush had left them, to make any recovery sound all the grander.
Which is why these people keep themselves and one another in constant conversation, even when the words they can find to describe the mess of life, the disappointments and betrayals, the tragedies, are as vague and insubstantial and seemingly meaningless as "this".
He describes the mess as "environmental vandalism".
Congratulations, coupled with dancing smiley faces, come pouring in after any reported successful wet dream, and there seem to be a handful of users who are turned on by the act of wet dreamers describing the mess.
The script could be kindly described as a mess, and the star — Clark Gable — was in turmoil.
From the outside, the Clutha appeared to be intact on Saturday, but the inside was described as a mess of mangled metal, dust and debris.
Mr. Obama tried to persuade Americans that he was seeking ways both legal and safe to clean up what he described as the "mess" left by the Bush administration.
