Sentence examples for messy language from inspiring English sources

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"Latin is actually an extremely idiomatic, very messy language, and I was so far from being able to master it," he said.

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His departure from Talking Loud, though couched in diplomatic language, was messy.

The music draws upon all elements of Messiaen's distinctive musical language: gloriously messy cluster chords thick with tart dissonances; shifting and complex meters based on rhythms from Greek and Hindu music; chantlike melodies; and skittish, quicksilver evocations of Messiaen's beloved bird calls.

Language is messy and intricate.

(Not all of us are convinced about the success of that approach; my own view is that language is irreducibly messy, and that the elegance that Chomsky seeks will not be forthcoming).

Reading each line was messy and laborious, a dismemberment of language rather than a decipherment.

This isn't to say that there aren't Democrats with messy divorces, sexual peccadilloes, or "salty language".

And, of course, there is no one thing Syracuse University will mean to all because language itself is a messy business.

So it's curious that he would invite in a crew known for foul language, hair-trigger tempers and messy murders.

Adam E. Cohen started his scientific life as a theoretical physicist, but became a biophysicist by immersing himself in biology's language and all of its messy details.

Pierre isn't really a short, sharp sort of writer; his skill, most potently exercised in his Booker Prize-winning 2003 debut Vernon God Little, is for messy, pungent, rambling anecdotes told in attention-seeking language.

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