Sentence examples for messy book from inspiring English sources

"An Accidental Sportswriter" is a messy book, full of recrimination and fulmination, pride and envy, contradiction and questioning.

On the one hand, there is the timeless seriousness of the question, and on the other hand there is the hapless, incoherent present-day chaos of the reply, which takes a whole messy book to fail to answer.

Appealingly down to earth, meanwhile, The Messy Book by Maudie Powell-Tuck (Little Tiger) is a collagey, colourful send-up of domestic dynamics, in which a harassed dog insists a recalcitrant cat must tidy her mess, with a hat-wearing giraffe and two penguins along for the ride.

But good intentions and eager kids can't make up for a confused, messy book and weak, pedestrian songs by Chance McClain.

Although he graduated from West Point and was an Army intelligence officer in the Gulf War, he's always been more nerd than soldier; at West Point, his cadet buddies used to make fun of him for leaving his calculator out in his messy, book-strewn dorm room, which they called "the de-militarized zone".

But my efforts have been undermined by an agency that keeps messy books and spends money inefficiently and wastefully.

Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow pressed Gensler and SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro on why the firm had gotten clean bills of health just months before its failure and the revelation of its messy books.

Co-written with a French journalist, Yves Messarovitch, Mr. Messier's book is a page-turner.

According to the French newspaper Le Parisien, the working title of Mr. Messier's book is "How I Was Betrayed".

And here, regrettably, Barish ends her messy but fascinating book.

This article is adapted from Tim Harford's book Messy, published by Little Brown.