The artists here impress you as talented loners working toward diverse and much messier notions of modernity.
In the end it was a sopping melee, very messy, and any notions of careful naval strategies were quickly abandoned as the audience and the team members — dressed in cardboard armor with painted faces and cardboard swords and shields — got caught up in their enthusiasm.
Still, because a lot of us wish that politics were less messy, less divisive, the notion that there is a set of new ideas is bewitching.
As someone who has been completely appreciative of Mark Messier for all he has done for the Rangers' organization, I nevertheless am disappointed about the notion of Messier and/or the organization having designs on him for coach and/or general manager.
But if you enjoyed watching this excruciating, messy, self-indulgent paean to the dubious notion of the necessity of destruction for the sake of male creativity, you're a monster.
This raw, messy photograph gives the lie to that loathsome notion: it exposes war as the defilement of the world, not its purification.
Finally, the article surveys the interplay between ideas and "messy social interactions" in the humanitarian innovation field to contemplate the notion of change as a matter of degree.
Discussing the relationship between church and state, he said the established church was "an odd business, a very messy and complicated business" but that he was "bloody-minded" about the notion of disestablishment.
These days, happiness seems a far more ambiguous notion in this place, which has again come to represent a messy and awkward point of collision between rich and poor, north and south.
That spared officials the messy task of granting the vote based on some other, harder-to-measure notion of Scottish-ness.
