Sentence examples for messy function from inspiring English sources

Calling a special election is a way to get around that fundamental, if messy, function of democracy known as a primary.

The thing is, putting life's messier functions into software can iron out the kinks.

In truth, Owen and Reeves were the leads, playing a brother and sister fatally attracted to each other, and whose messy relationship functions as a metaphor for the murky morals of late Thatcherite Britain.

It's a dreary slog through one man's frankly obnoxious obsession with our basest and messiest bodily functions.

Presiding over a messy but largely functioning polity has been a revered king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, whose admirers have no difficulty in reconciling the contradictory ideas that he is both "above politics" and also the guarantor of stability.These days, pragmatism has given way to dogmatic intransigence.

Feces, urine and sweat -- Cameron Diaz may be a Hollywood actress and a former model, but she isn't afraid to talk about the messy world of bodily functions.

The office can be cleaned but the desk top needs to be left alone for the messy-desk thinker to function.

Mr. Woodruff uses this part of the story to point out that justice is much broader than a legal function and much messier than a set of rules or large principles.