She, after all, has invited Oskar into her flat, an empty, squalid mess.
If forced to guess, you wouldn't peg her as the one who returns an empty coffee pot to the burner for the last few drops to bake into a crusty, almost-impossible-to-remove mess.
CHOLULA, Mexico — Three men, field laborers by day, huddle on a bench as night descends, a mess of empty bottles of hard liquor strewn nearby.
So, the house is a mess, the fridge empty, the diaper genie overflowing... My baby's alive, our wide-eyed, been-at-work-all-day wives think as they walk through the door.
Host's will generally not want you to do the dishes but even just stacking some plates, throwing out empty bottles and cleaning up mess if you make it goes a long way the next day when the host has a hangover!
The sets are full of empty spaces interrupted by chaotic messes; the lighting is stark and the sound cacophonous.
All the same, you could be forgiven for hoping for something less shoddily empty-headed than this misbegotten mess.
Her face was white and empty, no makeup, her hair a mess.
Otherwise, the author writes, the EU could miss its moment at the center of the world's stage, dissolving into the mess of bureaucracy and empty promise that are the root of every joke about "old Europe".
"I just was empty, I just felt like I messed up, I felt like my world was over," he said.
