What they tended to share was a rather regimental, officers'-mess attitude to the party and a strong, though vague, patriotism much more powerful than any definite ideology".
You need to humble yourself, because if you get cocky, you're gonna have people saying, "He's got a messed up attitude," and that's gonna spread around the whole industry and you don't wanna go through that.
She said that "with Darren's cheeky escapades and Nancy's no-messing attitude, they'll make the perfect parents and we can't wait to see them with a little one".
In their place were much cooler and in-control women showing a "don't mess with me" attitude.
Should it be Yasmina, the restaurant-running half-Iranian entrepreneur of a rock-hard gaze and don't mess with me attitude.
A cropped boxy top and fitted skirt or trouser was the dominant silhouette, worn with the stompy, "don't mess" kind of attitude so admired in the duo's first collection for Marc by Marc Jacobs.
And if you can't use engine braking to slow the car before a bend it messes up the attitude of the vehicle (because a stab of the brakes loads weight onto the front wheels much more violently).
When I asked Gallop if she thought sex was a near-untouchable business sector because porn has poisoned the water, or whether it's simply a consequence of our society's frequently twisted, hypocritical, and messed-up attitude(s) toward sex, she didn't even hesitate before responding: "The latter".
Have our attitudes changed, are we subtler now, is Mercer messing with manhood, why can't she go be a boxer, if she still wants to get hit, it's the current rage?
This thinking led to last year's near £50m acquisition of restaurant chain Giraffe, a haunt for middle-class families thanks to its tolerant attitude to mess and willingness to serve mojitos alongside baby food.
Have the 'I'm nice, but don't mess around with me' attitude.
