Strict sentences did not make a shambles of his life because he had never faced them.
In "The Bell Boy" (1918), the pair predictably make a shambles of the Elk's Head Hotel.
The bombings threatened to make a shambles of Israel's agreements with the Palestinians.
It is delightful when fashion makes light of history, less so when museums make a shambles of it.
But his choice, a supposed clown who builds architectural models out of match sticks, lingers after the meal to help make a shambles of Brochant's life.
The cat is kindly and well-meaning, but he's an impulsive conjurer of tricks, destructive little creatures and magical production numbers that make a shambles of a décor that Joan needs in pristine condition on instructions from her boss.
For example, every time Sherman goes to seal the romantic deal with the lovely Denise (Ms. Jackson), out pops Buddy to make a shambles of the proceedings with his lewd shenanigans.
Before the Court holds that a purely investigatory agency must adopt the full roster of adjudicative safeguards, however, it would do well to heed carefully its own warning in Hannah, that such a requirement 'would make a shambles of the investigation and stifle the agency in its gathering of facts.' 363 U.S., at 444, 80 S.Ct., at 1515.
Opponents, which include many private and nonprofit publishers and many professional societies, argue that an unfettered policy would bankrupt journals and make a shambles of the peer-review and article selection system that has served the world scientific community for centuries.
Twenty minutes after he helped make a shambles of the Knicks' surging playoff hopes, Rik Smits, Indiana's 7-foot-4-inch center, squeezed himself into a purple folding chair in one of the Garden's corridors and furiously punched numbers on a pay phone.
